The Future of Advanced Air Mobility
Ian Sheppard

Ian Sheppard

Ian Sheppard was Editor International Show Editions with AIN from June 2013 and became Senior Editor - International in 2018.

Based at Redhill Aerodrome, near London, UK, Ian reports for the various AIN publications including its show dailies, being the AIN dailies editor for the Farnborough, Paris, Singapore, and Dubai Air Shows, as well as for the ABACE, MEBAA and LABACE business aviation events.

Prior to becoming more involved with AIN in mid-2011 (initially as deputy international editor), Ian edited various aviation publications including African Aerospace; Regional International, the magazine of the European Regions Airline Association; and Aircraft Owner & Pilot, the magazine of AOPA UK.

Before that Ian worked for various esteemed publications including Flight International (technical reporter, 1997-8), and was the editor of Aerospace International at the Royal Aeronautical Society before spending four years at the Airclaims (Ascend) consultancy at Heathrow Airport, 2000-2004

He has a UK/EASA commercial pilot license (with instructor rating), and an FAA private pilot license. He obtained a degree in aeronautical engineering at the University of Bath, England, in 1992, and completed legal training in 2007 — though he has to so far found aviation journalism is much more fun!

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EmbraerX Says Air Traffic Management Progress is Key to Viability of Urban Air Mobility

Embraer realised that building an eVTOL aircraft was pointless without a scaleable air traffic management environment.
EmbraerX has studied Sao Paulo, the world's busiest city for helicopters, and concluded that ultimately the air traffic environment has to consist of automated aircraft in an automated system, if it is to scale to the levels envisages with the safety that regulators will require. Helping to drive that could be the fact the aviation industry is already struggling to train enough pilots and air traffic controllers for regular operations, while also facing high forecast growth and pressure to modernise and improve.
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UK CAA Outlines Support For Urban Air Mobility Innovation

The UK Civil Aviation Authority says it is determined to lead the way and be open to the UAM sector's safe development
Frederic Laugere from the UK Civil Aviation Authority outlines how the agency is supporting innovation in aviation and has created three services as part of its Innovation Services unit: the Gateway, Sandbox and Regulatory laboratories.
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Foresight Conference Latest To Consider Explosion of Interest in UAM

Foresight Aerospace's conference in London on December 5, 2019, brought together an intimate gathering of his-profile speakers.
Attendees at the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) session during Foresight Aerospace's conference in London on December 5 seemed to agree that issues such as regulation and insurance and air traffic management failings, could stall an industry bursting to bring manned electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft into operation. 
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