Advanced urban air mobility vehicle communication

A method comprising:

• obtaining historic flight data of one or more urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles flying over a target flight path, wherein the historic flight data is indicative of flight information of historical flights undertaken by the one or more UAM vehicles over the target flight path, and wherein the flight information includes details and records of communication between the one or more UAM vehicles with a ground station during the historical flights;
• analysing the historic flight data to identify one or more blackout areas in the target flight path where signal strength of communication signals received by the UAM vehicles from the ground station was below a threshold signal strength;
• determining, for each of the one or more blackout areas, one or more intermediate nodes to be within a prespecified distance from the blackout area, wherein the one or more intermediate nodes are to be utilized by the one or more UAM vehicles as communication nodes for relaying communication signals to the ground station during flight over the blackout area;
• providing, for each of the one or more blackout areas, a list of the one or more intermediate nodes to a target UAM vehicle flying over the target flight path, wherein upon approaching the one or more blackout areas, the target UAM vehicle is to initiate establishing a wireless communication with at least one of the one or more intermediate nodes determined to be within the prespecified distance from the blackout area, to relay communication signals including real-time flight data to the ground station.