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e Visions<br />
Photos (3): Lars Brede Grøndahl / Flynytt<br />
Norway has<br />
a vibrant general<br />
aviation<br />
community,<br />
and Norges<br />
Luftsportforbund<br />
(The<br />
Norwegian<br />
Air Sports<br />
Federation) is<br />
now seeking<br />
to introduce<br />
electric<br />
aircraft.<br />
The reason for the initiative is that the transport sector is expected<br />
to change in a number of ways at the same time as<br />
new business models; new players and changes in user behavior<br />
accompany new technology. The government will facilitate<br />
the rapid adoption of new technology in the transport<br />
sector through the development of new solutions and by<br />
adapting existing solutions suited to Norwegian conditions.<br />
Norway should be well suited for early use and use of electric<br />
aircraft for commercial traffic. The short field and narrow<br />
distance network of airports in Norway seems to fit well with<br />
expected performance on the first electric aircraft, both in<br />
terms of passenger capacity, distances, short-circuit characteristics<br />
and infrastructure for electrical energy.<br />
So what is the plan now and what are the next steps? Avinor<br />
assigned Jan Otto Reimers to do a study on “How the conversion<br />
to an electric aviation is possible” and how Norway<br />
can be one of the leading countries in this development.<br />
Jan Otto is ideal for this Job, even though he is not a pilot<br />
he is former president of the Norges Luftsportsforbund<br />
(Norwegian Aero Club) and was also leading the introduction<br />
of electric cars in Norwegian cities.<br />
After he delivered his first Report in May <strong>2017</strong>, Avinor and the<br />
government are now evaluating the options and will decide<br />
by the end of September which way the development will go.<br />
The following options are possible:<br />
A - Establish a sketch for cooperation with development organizations<br />
for electric aircraft to ensure that development<br />
also fit Norwegian conditions. (The short field and narrow<br />
distance network of airports in Norway may be interesting as<br />
an early user scenario.)<br />
B - Investigate possible collaboration with Norwegian companies<br />
and development organizations to build expertise in<br />
Norway, such as establishing a testing and competence center<br />
for electric aircraft.<br />
C - Details of the consequences of electrification of the short<br />
field and narrow distance network of airports, including the<br />
need for development, operation on short field airports, electrical<br />
infrastructure, passenger basis, aircraft sizes, energy<br />
consumption, emissions, approaches, noise, digitalized air<br />
traffic control, autonomous systems, etc.<br />
D - Prepare details for electrification of sport aviation: installations,<br />
infrastructure for charging, noise, energy consumption,<br />
emissions, etc.<br />
E - Assessing incentives and grants/funding schemes for the<br />
introduction of electric aircraft, operation of electric aircraft<br />
at an early stage and development of facilities/infrastructure.<br />
We will keep you updated.<br />
Ketil Solvik-Olsen (left), Norway’s minister of transport,<br />
Didier Esteyne (middle), designer and test pilot of Airbus<br />
E-Fan, and Dag Falk-Petersen, Avinor’s CEO, at the 2016 Zero<br />
Emission Resource Organization Conference in Oslo.<br />
Aircraft designer<br />
Tomas<br />
Brødreskrift (left)<br />
is demonstrating<br />
Norway’s first<br />
hybrid electric<br />
aircraft, Equator<br />
P2 Xcursion,<br />
to secretary<br />
general of the<br />
Norwegian Air<br />
Sports Federation<br />
John Eirik Laupsa<br />
(middle) during<br />
Aero <strong>2017</strong> in<br />
Friedrichshafen.<br />
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