Madrid, Oct 25 (EFE) .- Already essential to carry out numerous tasks during emergencies and disasters or security and surveillance tasks, drones are already preparing to share airspace with manned aircraft in the coming years and to provide services such as the distribution of goods and even the transport of people.
Popularized in recent months by the work and images they captured during the Filomena squall, in the forest fires of last summer, or by the work they have been doing on the island of La Palma since the current volcanic crisis began, these devices offer In some countries, services such as “aerotaxis” deliver packages, fumigate surfaces or distribute medicines.
The most innovative and advanced technology in this sector, and among it the air taxis that are already transporting people autonomously in some countries or the gigantic drone used by the Military Emergency Unit (UME) to spray large areas as a preventive measure during the pandemic. , will be exhibited from tomorrow at the Expodrónica fair.
The fair, which will last for three days, coincides this year with the celebration at the Ifema facilities in Madrid of the World Congress on Air Traffic Management, in which representatives from more than 100 countries and 130 companies in the sector will participate, and which will be inaugurated tomorrow by King Felipe VI.
Experts are convinced that unmanned aircraft will share airspace in the coming years with manned aircraft, and have observed to EFE that the new regulatory framework that exists in Europe, which came into force at the beginning of the year and will be deployed completely in 2023, it will promote “and normalize” the coexistence of all aircraft (manned or not) in the sky.
The director of Expodrónica, Isabel Buatas, has stated that this coexistence will be “efficient and safe”, and has assured that some of the most recent scenarios, such as the pandemic or the different emergencies that have occurred in recent months, have contributed to overcome the “trust” barriers that many people may still have and improve public acceptance of this technology.
“Drones have shown their usefulness in a very clear way, and crisis situations such as the pandemic, the storm Filomena or the La Palma volcano have made them essential,” Isabel Buatas told EFE, and has observed that these devices They have gone in ten years from being a proprietary product of the entertainment and audiovisual industry to being “the solution” for many safety, emergency or rescue challenges.
And “the definitive step” will be, in his opinion, the integration and coexistence of the two sectors (manned aviation and drones) in the same airspace, and has underlined the significance in that sense of the meeting in Madrid that goes to bring together the industry and those responsible for air traffic management to move towards the new air mobility “and the construction of the sky of the future”.
Among the technology that will be in Madrid in the coming days, the air taxi manufactured by the Chinese company EHang stands out, which already transports people in an autonomous way, or the drone of almost three meters of wingspan -of the DJI company- that the Army has already used to spraying large areas during the worst moments of the pandemic and is being used in “precision agriculture” work.
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