Virginia Tech research is helping launch the future of air transportation in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Launched in March, the Virginia Advanced Air Mobility Smart Airspace Program is a university-led initiative to research and develop low level routing and instrument flight procedures for the departure and arrival of advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft. This includes the use of vertiports, ultra short access points, and other community-friendly AAM infrastructure.
Funded by the Virginia Department of Aviation and the Virginia Small Aircraft Transportation Systems Lab, the procedures developed will comply with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules already in place while accounting for the unique capabilities of advanced air mobility aircraft with the goal of creating the first FAA-approved flight operations network of its kind in the United States…