#111 Libby Bahat, Israel Civil Aviation Authority: Flying civilians into a war zone

About this episode

Libby Bahat discusses the challenges of regulating civil aviation in a war zone.

Libby Bahat returns to The Vertical Space. Last time we talked to him about building an airspace for drones in peacetime. This time he's the regulator who decides whether a 777 full of people lands in a country under missile fire. As Head of the Aerial Infrastructure Department at the Israel Civil Aviation Authority, Libby is one of a small number of people anywhere who has had to build a quantitative framework, debris models, interception zones, penetration probabilities, that lets a civil a...

People in this episode

Hosts: Jim Barry, Peter Shannon, Luka Tomljenovic

Guest: Libby Bahat

Topics covered

• civil aviation
• war zones
• drone airspace
• regulation
• aviation safety

Keywords

• civil aviation
• war zone
• Libby Bahat
• Israel Civil Aviation Authority
• aviation regulation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Israel Civil Aviation Authority

Products: 777

Places: Israel, war zone

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