Final week, Flowcopter participated within the inaugural Offshore Drone Problem (ODC) happening on the Nationwide Experimental Take a look at Heart of Unmanned Plane Techniques in Cochstedt, Germany. Sponsored by power large EnBW in partnership with the German Aerospace Heart (DLR), the ODC has been created as a possibility for main drone producers to showcase their plane in entrance of main offshore wind operators and main figures in Transport, EU Drone Regulation and the German Authorities.
EnBW states that; ‘Offshore wind farms play a key position in reaching our local weather targets and are designed for a service lifetime of over twenty years. The problem is that they’re typically positioned removed from the coast. We depend on progressive applied sciences to optimize the operation and upkeep of those generators.’
Flowcopter, represented by Technical Director, Dr. Uwe Stein, introduced their FC100 Utility UAV, with it’s 100kg payload capability and 200km vary, as a commercially viable heavy elevate answer for Offshore Wind that may assist considerably scale back O&M prices for operators and improve uptime.
Dr. Stein mentioned, ‘Offshore Wind servicing is simply one of many software areas we all know our FC100 Utility UAV platform is completely suited. The big payload, lengthy endurance and gust resistant capabilities make it ideally fitted to the tough offshore environments that we all know present battery electrical methods are unable to deal with’.
The ODC follows on from latest profitable flight trials of Flowcopter’s FC100 on the UAS Denmark Take a look at Centre in Odense, Denmark in April this yr adopted by an exhibition on the Worldwide Drone Present at Hans Christian Andersen Airport in Could.