International aviation companies supplier ASL Aviation Holdings, and Dependable Robotics Company, a pacesetter in autonomous plane programs, 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 allows ASL to be a pacesetter within the adoption of security and effectivity enhancing automation. ASL and Dependable have been working collectively since 2022 to carry superior automation and distant piloting into ASL’s operations and have a shared objective of increasing this system to incorporate further plane varieties within the subsequent 12 months.
“We’re consistently creating and upgrading our capabilities to match and anticipate our prospects’ necessities. Automating the Caravan with Dependable’s expertise will allow ASL to ship secure and dependable air cargo transport companies at a decrease working price to our specific freight, postal and e-commerce retailer prospects,” stated ASL Aviation Holdings Director, Hugh Flynn.
ASL Aviation Holdings is a world chief in wet-lease airline operations for main specific 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 unique 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 world patrons of air cargo capability, in flip offering extra items to extra individuals in additional locations. This can begin with the Cessna C208B Caravan, after which we intend to carry superior automation to a spread of plane to fulfill trade wants,” stated Myles Goeller, Chief Enterprise Officer at Dependable Robotics.
The Dependable autonomous flight system absolutely automates an plane via 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 obligatory for uncrewed flight. The system will assist forestall 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 programs agreed upon in February 2024.
About Dependable Robotics
Dependable Robotics launched in 2017 to carry secure, licensed automation programs to industrial aviation. The corporate’s system allows distant operation of any plane sort. Dependable’s imaginative and prescient is to remodel the best way we transfer items and folks across the planet with safer, extra handy and extra inexpensive air transportation. The corporate is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and has a distributed world workforce. Study extra and see job openings at https://dependable.co
