Adam Durant

Carbon dioxide emissions have received all of the focus when it comes to aviation and climate change. However, it is a very little known fact that CO2 only comprises a third of the total warming effect that aviation has on the atmosphere. The other two thirds of aviation induced climate warming comes from contrail formation.

It has been found that by rerouting aircraft away from certain parts of the atmosphere you can prevent contrail formation.

This rerouting has a negligible fuel impact in the order of hundreds of percent with a massive atmospheric warming reduction, in the order of tens of percent.

But how do you do that? Well, this is where this week's guest comes in. Adam Durant. Adam is the CEO of SATAVIA, a software company that has developed the atmospheric modelling and predictive tools required to proactively re-route aircraft to prevent contrail formation. And in turn eliminating huge portions of aviation's climate impact with technology available today.

If you have any questions about the future of artificial intelligence in aviation, or are wondering how you can use it in your aviation business, then visit deepskyai.com to get started on your AI journey.

SATAVIA: https://www.satavia.com/

Adam Durant: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjdurant/

Interesting paper on climate change and contrails by Imperial College London: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.9b05608
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Nick Copland

The other side to autonomous aircraft are pilots losing their jobs.

On this episode of deep sky, we look at something slightly different. As artificial intelligence slowly advances, experimental aircraft are becoming exponentially more capable in their ability to perceive their environment and in turn, fly the plane. The other side of enabling semi or fully autonomous aircraft is that less pilots may be needed in the cockpits of the world's airliners. Today we explore what it is like to lose your job as a pilot and for that we are in conversation with Nick Copland. Nick ceased flying in March of 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic first swept the world. As at the time of recording in May of 2021 he still was yet to step back into a cockpit. Before COVID he was the technical pilot for the Boeing fleet at Jetstar Australia and a 787 first officer.

Our conversation explores the mental and emotional journey that starts when you are told you can't fly any more, we look at some of the challenges along the way and briefly discuss the future of pilotless aircraft.

If you have any questions about the future of artificial intelligence in aviation, or are wondering how you can use it in your aviation business, then visit deepskyai.com to get started on your AI journey.

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This week's guest is Lee Glazier, he is the head of Service Integrity at Rolls Royce and led the development of the Aletheia Framework, which is the subject of today's conversation. We go straight into discussing the framework so I will spend a minute or two explaining what it actually is.

The actual Aletheia Framework under discussion today is an A3 sized checklist aimed to be a clear, 32-step process that any organisation can follow so that its AI is accurate, well-managed and has a positive impact on the world. And, just like an audit, it incorporates the requirement to provide real evidence that the step has been completed.

If you have any questions about the future of artificial intelligence in aviation, or are wondering how you can use it in your aviation business, then visit deepskyai.com to get started on your AI journey.

Lee Glazier

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Northernlands3 - Caroline Gorski Aletheia Framework overview

RAeS Webinar: Artificial Intelligence and Aviation Start at 18:40 for Lee.

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