Terms

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) expands the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) concept to rural areas & also incorporates intraregional UAM services.

A portal for pilots, airline operators, & other Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) users to access flight information and submit e-flight plans.

Manned Vertical Take-Off & Landing Aircraft carrying humans along short routes, which are not serviced by conventional civil aviation operators.

A service by personnel trained and certified by aviation authorities, responsible for monitoring & controlling air traffic within a specific area, such as EASA, FAA, & others.

The toolkit of airborne & ground-based functions, including air traffic services, airspace, and flow management, required to ensure safe, secure, & efficient aircraft movement in all operations.

Aircraft designed to operate without human mission control. Unlike UAVs requiring remote operators, AAVs function autonomously, though not all UAVs qualify as AAVs.

Sometimes also called BLOS. This is where the flying of a drone is without a pilot maintaining visual line of sight on the aircraft at all times.

ConOps defines operations, environments, & applicable legislative or regulatory frameworks in the context of UAM activities & their implementation.

An unmanned aircraft or vehicle designed to operate autonomously or via remote control. Also called Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or Unmanned Aircraft (UA) when referring to aircraft.

Type of aircraft that uses electrical propulsion to takeoff, hover, and land vertically.