Jun 26, 2025
The future of air mobility: TU research aircraft in use for the Air-Metro Research Training Group Summer School
Approach to Kamenz airport with traffic warning display in action
Tour of the Cessna by students and staff of the Graduate Academy
On 27 May, TU Dresden's research aircraft supported the Air-Metro Research Training Group's summer school, which focuses on interdisciplinary research into the framework conditions and requirements for socially acceptable advanced air mobility. The focus is on modern and future-oriented mobility services, such as drones and air taxis, and the fundamental questions of how this can be made possible in the future in harmony with existing aviation structures and regulations.
Exemplary flight log of one of the flights performed
Within this research complex, the Research Training Group organised a summer school to underline key content with experiments. We supported these experiments with the TU Dresden research aircraft. The installed avionics were used to test the limits of visibility and detectability of drones and other aircraft by commercially available collision warning devices. The tests were supported by ground-based receiving systems, which also received and analysed the signals from the research aircraft.
In a further step, we used special measurement technology from the Vodafone Chair at TU Dresden to measure the coverage and quality of the public mobile phone network, as this is an essential building block for the networking of various players in the airspace.
We are delighted to be able to make a contribution to this important research with our research aircraft. It was also a pleasure to be able to demonstrate the outstanding technical capabilities of our research aircraft to a large number of students and staff.