Volocopter eVTOL for Emergency Medical Providers

June 20, 2023

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ADAC Luftrettung to Collaborate with Volocopter on Subsequent-Technology eVTOL for Emergency Medical Providers

ADAC Luftrettung is a charitable air rescue service working greater than 50 rescue helicopters out of 37 bases. The group’s motto is “Racing towards time and for all times”: in emergency medical providers, getting a affected person to therapy rapidly can imply the distinction between life and dying. On the Paris Air Present this week, ADAC Luftrettung has confirmed the acquisition of two VoloCity plane to start with: the group intends to buy an extra 150 Volocopter eVTOLs.

VoloCity eVTOLs supply the pace and adaptability of helicopters: with the advantages of zero emissions, quieter operations, and fewer environmental disruption.

“The 2 VoloCity plane will begin analysis operations in late 2024 to offer ADAC Luftrettung’s Emergency Medical Providers (EMS) as supplementary plane in Germany. Upon profitable completion of those first operations, the extra eVTOLs can be thought-about to be used in future rescue missions,” says a Volocopter press launch.

ADAC Luftrettung, and Volocopter have been working collectively to review using eVTOL in EMS and rescue operations since 2018. (Learn outcomes right here.) “The research computer-simulated aeromedical missions in two areas in Germany, and theoretically proved that the introduction of eVTOLs in life-saving conditions would add a big tactical benefit, from a technical, sustainable, and operational standpoint,” says the discharge.

Volocopter expects to obtain EASA kind certification for the VoloCity in 2024. When the certification is acquired, the 2 bought plane will go into service manned by a pilot and an emergency doctor to complement (not substitute) rescue helicopters: these operations will proceed as a take a look at for no less than two years earlier than the eVTOLs are absolutely built-in into the ADAC Luftrettung rescue fleet.

“From the very starting, now we have been satisfied that these plane also can form and enhance the rescue service of the long run,” defined Frédéric Bruder, Chief Govt Officer of ADAC Luftrettung, and emphasised: “With increased ranges and operational speeds in addition to considerably extra payload of the subsequent technology of eVTOLs, we will additionally put the advantages for emergency care into follow – and fulfill our statutory mission to additional develop the rescue service from the air with pioneering improvements.”

Dirk Hoke, Chief Govt Officer of Volocopter, stated: “There isn’t any higher method to begin Volocopter eVTOL operations in Germany than by saving lives. ADAC Luftrettung is the main European rescue service with extremely educated pilots and profitable missions who consider in us to create a greater future collectively. We’ve got confirmed the emergency rescue use case works in concept, now we’re concentrating on the supply and execution to begin EMS operations in Germany in 2024.”

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