The European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE) develops standards ensuring safety, reliability, and innovation in aviation. As the industry landscape evolves rapidly, it is imperative standards keep pace with both the technological advancement and changing operational, environmental, and human factors that come too. At Aerospace Tech Week, Anna von Groote, Director General, EUROCAE explored this and more in this five-minute interview.
The conversation looked at the importance of addressing human factors to support safe, effective AI adoption with von Groote adding, “we in aviation know well how to deal with technical things but now the human factor is a really important topic as well.” Here, she explored the dedicated Working Groups that have been set up with this focus, shifting away from purely technical standards.
Towards the end of the discussion, von Groote unpacked the challenges of an increasingly congested airspace, and explained:
“IATA predicts growth of passenger traffic by 2.7 times in the next couple of years […] So we have to again be very holistic and look at the innovation pipeline – bringing technology to market, ensuring we give industry a framework, a regulatory framework, including technical standards, so the industry can safely deploy and bring these technologies to market.”
For more on this as well as taking a holistic approach to sustainability, watch the full interview below.
Questions asked include:
- AI is a critical part of the sector’s evolution. How should the industry tackle human factors around AI-decision making? Or broader integration?
- The journey to net-zero will involve embracing new technologies, aircraft, such as hydrogen. How can we ensure these are integrated into the ecosystem without safety being compromised?
- As airspace becomes more congested, how can we advance air traffic management to accommodate this growth?
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