Rob Coppinger

Nantes

Freelance Journalist and Editor at Freelance

#SpaceFlight Editor @BIS_spaceflight & @Aerosociety technology columnist. I am available for commissions, contact me here or via https://t.co/pRGxBiSvjM

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Articles

Transporting the most fragile and vulnerable: neonatal and pediatric air transfers

Oct 2, 2024 | airmedandrescue.com | Rob Coppinger

Looking after children and babies requires some of the most complex care with specialized equipment. Advanced training and qualifications for crew are essential, as well as unique technology to accommodate the wide range of diseases and physical sizes of neonatal and pediatric patients. A challenge for air ambulance services is that neonatal and pediatric transports are not frequent because roads are deemed a safer option, but the equipment and training must still be current.
France upgrades wind tunnels open fan engine testing

Sep 4, 2024 | aerospacetestinginternational.com | Rob Coppinger |Ben Sampson

The testing of a new type of propulsion system that claims to be greener has seen major changes to one of the French national aerospace research agency ONERA’s wind tunnels as part of a wider modernization program for the government wind tunnel facility in Modane, France near the Italian border.
Pushing the envelope: flying in low-density air

Aug 1, 2024 | airmedandrescue.com | Rob Coppinger

Helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft for medevac, ambulance flights and other special missions are being enhanced to ensure they can operate in the hot and high locations that make the job more perilous and where smooth and accurate flight can mean all the difference. As air gets hotter, at any altitude, it becomes less dense and stable, so flying through it is more difficult.
Safety management systems: a successful marriage of humans and technology

May 30, 2024 | airmedandrescue.com | Rob Coppinger

Risk needs to be managed with the same level of priority as other core business processes in the effort to be a profitable enterprise, and technology and training are key. “With advancements in technology, safety management systems have become more sophisticated and integrated, leveraging digital tools and platforms for enhanced efficiency and effectiveness,” explained Janita Wiedemann, Compliance Monitoring Manager at FAI Aviation Group.
Pilot training

May 2, 2024 | airmedandrescue.com | Rob Coppinger

Technology continues to transform training with simulation and other types of equipment providing different educational services for companies and pilots with different needs. From classrooms to mixed reality headsets, the range of training is there to meet the varied requirements of the special missions sector, but it will all culminate in an aircraft at some point.
Testing transformations: Digital tools and flight instruments

Feb 29, 2024 | airmedandrescue.com | Rob Coppinger

Condensation may not seem like the arch enemy of a helicopter’s cockpit, but in some climates the adoption of multi-functional displays (MFD) brings with it a unique problem, moisture. This is one of the experiences search and rescue (SAR) pilots in Central and South America have that highlights the sort of cost and functionality problems in the field that are overlooked when considering avionics and other equipment that SAR teams utilise.
Building an autonomous business jet

Feb 21, 2024 | aerospacetestinginternational.com | Rob Coppinger |Ben Sampson

A vision of an artificial intelligence piloted business jet was presented to the world last October by Embraer, while in recent years autonomous piloting in specific circumstances has become a reality. Two companies, Cirrus and HondaJet now offer an autonomous flight feature for emergencies. For several years before these recent developments, the aviation industry had been debating reduced or no pilot operations.
Personal locator beacons: Salvation for all

Nov 29, 2023 | eu1.hubs.ly | Rob Coppinger

New technology for personal locator beacons (PLBs) is enabling faster response times for search and rescue (SAR) providers, with the latest generation of SAR beacons, detectors and networks slowly entering new sectors and, increasingly, the civilian market as well. Since September 2022, people with the Apple iPhone 14 or the larger iPhone 14 Plus have been able to select an emergency SAR function that sends a signal to a satellite, not a cellular network tower, to give the user’s location.
Personal locator beacons: Salvation for all

Nov 29, 2023 | airmedandrescue.com | Rob Coppinger

New technology for personal locator beacons (PLBs) is enabling faster response times for search and rescue (SAR) providers, with the latest generation of SAR beacons, detectors and networks slowly entering new sectors and, increasingly, the civilian market as well. Since September 2022, people with the Apple iPhone 14 or the larger iPhone 14 Plus have been able to select an emergency SAR function that sends a signal to a satellite, not a cellular network tower, to give the user’s location.
Testing trajectory based operations

Nov 8, 2023 | aerospacetestinginternational.com | Rob Coppinger |Ben Sampson

Trajectory-based operations is one of the most important shifts in the way air traffic is handled for decades. The pan-European air traffic management (ATM) organization Eurocontrol uses the word transformation when it refers to the adoption by European ATM of trajectory-based operations and the flight optimization it enables through collaborative flight planning.