Bavaria´s State Secretary for Economy and Technology, Franz Josef Pschierer with EMT LUNA NG tactical UAS
The official opening of the “Deutsches Erprobungsgeländes für Unbemanntes Fliegen (DEU) / German Testsite for Unmanned Flying”, in Mattsies, Bavaria, Germany took place on Friday, September, 11th. The test site, which is the Airfield of Grob Aircraft, is for research & development of civil UAS. The test site can activate restricted airspace for flight operations with UAS. Several UAS companies displayed at this event.
Bavaria’s Economics Vice-Minister Franz Josef Pschierer declared at the opening of the UAS -Erprobungszentrums in Grob Aircraft AG in Tussenhausen-Mattsies: “unmanned aerial vehicles and their applications are core elements in future aviation. The opening of these testing grounds for unmanned aerial systems here in the Allgäu is an important milestone in the implementation of the Bavarian aerospace Strategy 2030, not only for Bavaria, but for the whole of Germany. The test center opens up new fields of activity in a dynamic industry. “
With the testing center for unmanned flying in the Swabian Mattsies, an expandable basis for market-oriented research funding at state and federal level for UAS has been created. The facility will especially help to increase the acceptance of this new technology to open up further fields of application and further reduce legal barriers to approval. Possible fields of application for unmanned flying are the monitoring of industrial equipment, filming, missing person searches, aerial surveys in agriculture, forestry or civil surveying tasks.
From 2007 “demonstration on the subject of unmanned flying for Bayern” has encouraged the development of skills for the unmanned flying in a broad industry consortium with almost € 4 million from the Bavarian Ministry of Economics in the programme by early-2013. In the Augsberg economic area, there are several world-leading companies in the development, design and construction of aircraft with around 20,000 employees and sales of EUR nearly 4 billion.
Sources: Bavarian Regional Government;EMT