National Campaign Developmental Test - ARTRMay 20, 2021

AAM Project Partnership Support of the Industry Timeline

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• NC Series Operational Demonstrations – Focus on AAM partnerships with NASA as facilitator• X-Series Simulations – NC / ATM-X lead preparing airspace partners to support NC flight activities• R&D Flight Tests -- Build-up and research flights with partners bringing key technologies/vehicles

• Includes AFCM and HDV technologies and partners with IAS research and demonstration flights

Research Focus for NASA IAS-1/NC-2 Complex OperationsNational Aeronautics and Space Administration

Hazard Perception & Avoidance

4D TBO / DAAMerging & Spacing

ContingencyManagementLVC

Traffic

CommitDecision Point

UnchartedObstacle

Pilot-directedLanding

Critical VehicleFailure Point

NominalOperations

LEGEND:Automation Scenarios and ChallengesOperational Elements

Airspace/OperationData Interop Aircraft Handling

and Operations

Integrated Piloting Requirements

NC-1 Objectives and FAA Pillars Alignment (UML 1-UML 2)Accelerate Certification and Approval: Develop and assess an integrated approach to vehicle certification, pilot licensing, and operational approval.

Develop Flight Procedure Guidelines: Develop preliminary guidelines for flight procedures and related airspace design criteria.

Evaluate the Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS) Trade Space: Explore and evaluate CNS requirements, options, and trade-offs.

Demonstrate an Airspace Management Architecture: Demonstrate and document an airspace system architecture capable of safely managing scalable AAM operations without burdening the current air traffic management system.

Identify Community Integration Needs: Conduct initial characterization of the community noise of AAM vehicles through measurements of vehicle ground noise.

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AircraftInfrastructure

Operations

Aircraft Airspace OperationsInfrastructure

Airspace Operations

CommunityAircraft

AircraftInfrastructure

Operations

Scenario Technical Working Group1

Trajectory Planning & Compliance

2Vehicle & AOM Data

Exchange & Coordination

3UAM Port

Operations

4Noise

Evaluations & Responses

Credits: NC STWG

Data Products & Processes with FAA NASA I FAA Collaboration

Collaborative scenario development to test UAM operations for gap analysis

FAA UAM Focals

AnchorNational Campaign Working Group

Current Standards & Policies

EvolveIdentify

Gaps

Credits: David Dunning, FAA NC Lead

AAM ImplementationPlan

ANG - NextGen

AGC – Office of the Chief Counsel

APL – Policy, International Affairs, and Environment

ARP - Airports

ASH – Security & Hazardous Materials Safety

AJO – Air Traffic Organization

TSI – Transportation Safety Institute

AVS – Aviation Safety

Data Requirements

Performing collaborative gap analysis for existing standards and policies across all lines of business in the FAA to enable UAM operations

NC Execution in FY21 – NC Developmental Test

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NC Partnership

Management

L1L2L3-D

NASA Testing

NC DT with Joby

Data Buys: Bell & FLE

Flights

Airspace Simulation (X3 & X4)

ACO Release

Dry Run Flight Testing Flight Testing

CY2020 CY2021 CY2022

Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Scenario Development and Flight Test Objective Refinement Bell Flight

Testing

NC-1 Vehicle Information Exchange Engagements

Partner Selection

NC-1 Flight Testing

NC-1 Partner Reviews & Prep

X3 Data Collection X4 Data Collection

FLE Flight Testing

DT Flight

Testing

NC Developmental Test ObjectivesNC-DT Goal: Ensure that NASA is fully prepared to execute NC-1 event in a manner maximizing benefits to the AAM community

DTO-1: Assess Maturity and Robustness of NASA Proving GroundFull Success: Collect data to support analysis of the flight test and simulation infrastructure for Scenarios 1-4.

DTO-2: Assess Effectiveness of NC Testing Processes, Logistics, and Data CollectionFull Success: Guide one partner organization through technology readiness, test readiness, flight and simulation execution, and data collection processes.

DTO-3: Preliminary Assessment of Partner Capabilities and Systems PerformanceFull Success: Conduct flight test and simulation for at least one partner aircraft/airspace system to collect vehicle, airspace, and connectivity/communication performance data against the requirements for Scenarios 1-4.

DTO-4: Assess the Suitability of NC-1 ScenariosFull Success: Assess the applicability of the scenarios through the execution of at least three of the NC-1 scenarios with at least one vehicle and one airspace partner.

DTO-1: Assess Maturity and Robustness of NASA Proving Ground

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Photo Courtesy of NASA

Condensed UAM Approaches/Airspace– Viable UAM IMC approaches– Heliport and Vertiport operations

AIRSPACE constraints

Minimum Flight Characteristics required for Urban Operations– All Azimuth Capability– Windward/Leeward effects on controllability– Tailored UAM civil certification HQ tasks

VEHICLE minimum requirements

Required evolutions to existing standards to

enable UAM– Terminal/Instrument

Procedures (TERPS)– Urban Planning

INFRASTRUCTURE needs

DTO-1: Assess Maturity and Robustness of NASA Proving Ground

DTO-1&2: Assess Effectiveness of NC Processes, Logistics, and Data Collection

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Photo Courtesy of Flight Research Inc

Collect flight characterization data, such as, accel/decel, climb/descend, bank angles, approach angles, departure angles leveraging, missed approach, balked landing

Collect acoustic data to inform eVTOL noise evaluation database

Rotor Data• RPM (5 bladed rotors)• Blade angle (for all)• Rotor geometry

Motor Data

Vehicle State Data Energy Data• Aircraft true airspeed• Ground speed• Flight path angle• Barometric/Geo altitude• Pressure altitude• Vertical velocity (vz)• Vertical speed• Magnetic heading• True heading• Latitude/Longitude• Lat/Lon acceleration• Pitch, roll, yaw rate & angle• GPS/UTC time sync data

• Battery Charge State• Battery Temperature• Consumption Rate• Health indicator

• Temperature (all 6)• Controller temperature• Motor RPM• Power cell storage state

Inceptor Data• Inceptor force• Inceptor position• Inceptor modes/speeds

Pilot Interfaces• Control requests• Right hand inceptor• Left hand inceptor• Rudder Pedals

Transition Data• Transition schedule• TX-Transition• Transition test block• Transition performance

DTO-3&4: Preliminary Assessment of Partner Capabilities and Systems Performance

O-4: Assess the Suitability of NC-1 ScenariosScenario 4 Acoustic Testing

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National Campaign will provide• Microphone array to process ground noise contours for each flyover;

UTC timestamped data for synchronization with aircraft tracking data

• Will enable initial assessment of the noise impact for various phases of flight, including near vertiport operations and en route

Example Ground Noise Contour from previous helicopter test

Microphone station

High quality microphone

DAQ

Antenna for wireless control

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Processed result (Example from previous helicopter test)