ADW - Connecting Air Mobility Worldwide 2024

April 17, 2024

By ADLC

Company

Amsterdam Drone Week stands as a premier global forum for exchanging insights into existing air solutions, prospective innovations and critical regulatory matters. This year’s event, held between April 16-18 at the prestigious RAI Amsterdam, attracted over 3200 representatives from a diverse group of global major commercial and non-commercial stakeholders who gathered to collaboratively discuss the strategies needed to scale drone and air mobility services. The theme: global harmonization of regulation and infrastructure.

U.S. roadmap

Throughout the event, Jeffrey Vincent, Executive Director Integration Office at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), outlined several key U.S. initiatives in drones and AAM. The FAA has adopted what he referred to as “a scaled approach to construct an information-centric system,” for these industries.

FAA BVLOS NPRM, NLT Dec 2024
Dallas UTM Operational Evaluations, start Aug 2024
1st U.S. eVTOL Aircraft Certification, projected for 2025

# U.S. roadmap
Throughout the event, Jeffrey Vincent, Executive Director Integration Office at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), outlined several key U.S. initiatives in drones and AAM. The FAA has adopted what he referred to as “a scaled approach to construct an information-centric system,” for these industries.

- FAA BVLOS NPRM, NLT Dec 2024
- Dallas UTM Operational Evaluations, start Aug 2024
- 1st U.S. eVTOL Aircraft Certification, projected for 2025

EU roadmap

Joachim Luecking, DG Move, provided an update on the EU Drone Strategy 2.0. Adopted in November 2022 by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the strategy focuses on five key objectives: enhancing airspace capabilities, facilitating aerial operations, developing Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), ensuring social acceptance and sustainability, and promoting the human dimension of drone technology.

U-Space Regulation, published 2021, effective 2023
Drone Strategy 2.0, adopted 2022, implementation in progress

# EU roadmap

Joachim Luecking, DG Move, provided an update on the EU Drone Strategy 2.0. Adopted in November 2022 by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the strategy focuses on five key objectives: enhancing airspace capabilities, facilitating aerial operations, developing Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), ensuring social acceptance and sustainability, and promoting the human dimension of drone technology.

- U-Space Regulation, published 2021, effective 2023
- Drone Strategy 2.0, adopted 2022, implementation in progress

Partnership

During ADW24, ADLC showcased its partnership with Phoenix-Wings. After conducting an extensive market research, the PW.Orca of Phoenix-Wings GmbH as the ideal platform to implement its SAMPLIFLY service in the Port of Antwerp-Bruges.

The intense and fruitful cooperation between ADLC and Phoenix-Wings has led to a strategic relationship whereby Phoenix-Wings commits to support ADLC in the international deployment of its express delivery services.