20.10.2023

This document is mainly intended as an internal report to the AiRMOUR consortium, summarizing the live validation events of manned UAM EMS scenarios. All findings from the validations will be summarized in D7.6, and the project final report. Hence, this report will be very brief in nature, limiting ourselves to high level details of the validation events.

The planning, preparation and execution of the live demonstration flight programs was based on the proposed objectives and the AiRMOUR project decision to use two concrete high-level EMS scenarios. The selected scenarios (as specified in WP2) were: eVTOL to “bring specialist medical personnel to the scene or a patient to the hospital”. UAS to “deliver EMS equipment or supplies to the scene or samples to a laboratory”. For each partner city we focused on one use-case as specified in Deliverable D2.2

The overall project objectives have been broken down into sub-objectives. Each sub-objective was assessed using one or several success criteria. Each success criterium is evaluated against a target value, as described in deliverable D7.1. Validation flights was only one of several tools available to evaluate the project’s success criteria. The live validation events were generally a part of validation events, with workshops focusing on getting as much data as possible through flights, simulations, table-top exercises and stakeholder interviews.

Hence, beyond the live validation of flying with drones and manned eVTOLs, this was also an opportunity to validate all AiRMOUR tools (standards, public acceptance maps, operational schemes, etc.) that were developed in the project. In addition to service as validation activities, the validation flights were also central elements to local stakeholder engagement in each of the validation locations.

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