International aviation companies supplier ASL Aviation Holdings, and Dependable Robotics Company, a frontrunner in autonomous plane techniques, in the present day introduced that ASL has positioned a deposit-backed order for 30 items of the Dependable autonomous flight system for the Cessna 208B Caravan. The deal secures early supply slots and permits ASL to be a frontrunner within the adoption of security and effectivity enhancing automation. ASL and Dependable have been working collectively since 2022 to convey superior automation and distant piloting into ASL’s operations and have a shared purpose of increasing this system to incorporate extra plane varieties within the subsequent 12 months.
“We’re continuously growing and upgrading our capabilities to match and anticipate our clients’ necessities. Automating the Caravan with Dependable’s know-how will allow ASL to ship secure and dependable air cargo transport companies at a decrease working price to our categorical freight, postal and e-commerce retailer clients,” mentioned ASL Aviation Holdings Director, Hugh Flynn.
ASL Aviation Holdings is a world chief in wet-lease airline operations for main categorical freight, postal and e-commerce corporations. The ASL group consists of eight airways primarily based in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, working over 160 plane. Dependable Robotics is an authentic member of ASL’s CargoVision discussion board of next-generation corporations concerned in pioneering new aviation and propulsion applied sciences.
“ASL and Dependable will work collectively to ship automated air cargo companies for the most important international patrons of air cargo capability, in flip offering extra items to extra individuals in additional locations. It will begin with the Cessna C208B Caravan, after which we intend to convey superior automation to a variety of plane to fulfill trade wants,” mentioned Myles Goeller, Chief Enterprise Officer at Dependable Robotics.
The Dependable autonomous flight system absolutely automates an plane by way of all phases of operation together with taxi, takeoff and touchdown, enabling it to be operated by a distant pilot in a floor management station. Dependable’s system is plane agnostic and makes use of a number of layers of redundancy and superior navigation know-how to enhance security and obtain the degrees of integrity and reliability needed for uncrewed flight. The system will assist stop managed flight into terrain (CFIT) and lack of management in flight (LOC-I), which account for almost all of deadly aviation accidents. In November 2023, Dependable Robotics remotely operated a Cessna 208B Caravan with nobody on board, marking aviation historical past. Business-leading certification progress contains FAA acceptance of Dependable’s certification plan in June 2023, and all necessities for the superior plane navigation and autopilot techniques agreed upon in February 2024.
About Dependable Robotics
Dependable Robotics launched in 2017 to convey secure, licensed automation techniques to industrial aviation. The corporate’s system permits distant operation of any plane kind. Dependable’s imaginative and prescient is to rework the way in which we transfer items and other people across the planet with safer, extra handy and extra inexpensive air transportation. The corporate is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and has a distributed international workforce. Be taught extra and see job openings at https://dependable.co
