7Conclusions
“Oh, my goodness, it's all coming to fruition.”
Jay Merkle
Exec. Dir., UAS Integration Office, FAA1267
Chapter 1 introduces UTM. Since its inception as a NASA research project, UTM has represented a major step integrating unmanned aircraft operations into the NAS, as well as a turning point in aviation history. UTM enables the automation needed to handle the new services and predicted volume of unmanned flights. Nevertheless, challenges to safety and efficiency may arise from volume (leading to traffic saturation), small vehicle size, challenging DAA and SWaP, and overall interaction with the ATC system, taxing ATC-UTM coordination. Experts from diverse fields have committed to forging an aviation future that is agile and resilient, ...
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