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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 127 - San Diego, CA - November 2021
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.1 Systems Technology Inc.
Title	Systems Technology Inc.
Presenter	Dave Klyde
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Abstract	There is a strong movement afoot to create an environment of enhanced urban air mobility via a wide range of air taxi and personal air vehicle concepts. The Vertical Flight Society is tracking the progress of new eVTOL vehicle concepts via a web portal that currently features 167 vectored thrust, 85 lift plus cruise configurations, 148 wingless multicopters, and 40 electric rotorcraft (updated 9/25/2021). Many of these vehicles have flown as scaled proof of concepts, while several others are flying as full-scale prototypes. While many of the concepts are envisioned to fly in an autonomous mode, the vehicles that will be certified by the FAA initially will all likely have pilot/operators on-board. Furthermore, these mostly electric vertical takeoff and landing concepts (eVTOL) will also likely feature advanced flight control concepts with highly augmented response types and a variety of cockpit control concepts from conventional helicopter to conventional fixed wing to unified (i.e., the F-35 approach). Given the industry push, these vehicles are clearly coming, but is the public ready to accept this disruptive technology? Besides the noise factor, which is not addressed by STI, there are safety and comfort factors to consider as well as a pilot pool that is likely to have less training and experience then those flying in the commercial transport market. To this end STI is addressing the development of new certification means of compliance approaches for Part 23 aircraft and creating a supporting Test Guide under contract to the FAA. In work for NASA, STI and partners are via several contracts developing a Task-Pilot-Vehicle analysis approach to assess handling qualities and ride qualities, a portable cockpit display to support certification means of compliance flight testing, and piloted simulation methods to address increasing autonomy and failure modes.