World aviation companies supplier ASL Aviation Holdings, and Dependable Robotics Company, a frontrunner in autonomous plane techniques, at the moment 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 allows ASL to be a frontrunner within the adoption of security and effectivity enhancing automation. ASL and Dependable have been working collectively since 2022 to deliver superior automation and distant piloting into ASL’s operations and have a shared objective of increasing this system to incorporate extra plane varieties within the subsequent 12 months.
“We’re always creating and upgrading our capabilities to match and anticipate our clients’ necessities. Automating the Caravan with Dependable’s expertise will allow ASL to ship protected and dependable air cargo transport companies at a decrease working value 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 firms. The ASL group consists of eight airways based mostly in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, working over 160 plane. Dependable Robotics is an unique member of ASL’s CargoVision discussion board of next-generation firms concerned in pioneering new aviation and propulsion applied sciences.
“ASL and Dependable will work collectively to ship automated air cargo companies for the biggest world patrons of air cargo capability, in flip offering extra items to extra folks in additional locations. This can begin with the Cessna C208B Caravan, after which we intend to deliver superior automation to a variety of plane to satisfy business wants,” mentioned Myles Goeller, Chief Enterprise Officer at Dependable Robotics.
The Dependable autonomous flight system absolutely automates an plane by means 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 expertise to enhance security and obtain the degrees of integrity and reliability mandatory 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. Trade-leading certification progress consists of 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 deliver protected, licensed automation techniques to industrial aviation. The corporate’s system allows distant operation of any plane kind. Dependable’s imaginative and prescient is to remodel the best way we transfer items and other people across the planet with safer, extra handy and extra reasonably priced air transportation. The corporate is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and has a distributed world workforce. Be taught extra and see job openings at https://dependable.co