Advanced air mobility: India
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India’s preparedness
2024: rules issued
Sep 7, 2024: The Times of India
New Delhi : Indian aviation authorities are preparing the groundwork for planned launch of air taxis in country by 2026. In a major milestone, DGCA issued the rules for establishing vertiports — from where these vertical take-off & landing (VTOL) capable aircraft — will operate, paving the way for “advance air mobility” (AAM) in India.
IndiGo parent, InterGlobe Enterprises (IGE), plans to launch California-based electric air taxi-maker Archer Aviation’s e-VTOL ‘Midnight’ in the country around 2026. IGE chief Rahul Bhatia has signed up for upto 200 Midnights worth $1 billion.
Issued after “extensive consultation with all stakeholders,” DGCA circular “provides comprehensive guidelines covering critical aspects”.
These include, infrastructure requirements, physical attributes for vertiports, guidelines to ensure air taxis’ safe and unobstructed takeoff and landing and standards for visual aids to assist in landing. TNN
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