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I think the long term answer is to copy the rules for aviation, where a Private Pilot Licence is different from a Commercial Pilot Licence, and the rules about

by thisrod 10y ago

I think the long term answer is to copy the rules for aviation, where a Private Pilot Licence is different from a Commercial Pilot Licence, and the rules about what the holders can do are clear and widely publicised. "Uber for planes" would be highly illegal, and everyone involved would get arrested. Even without regulation, there must be a huge legal risk that Uber's lack of a serious fatigue management system will be found to be negligent. The ways this goes wrong in the trucking industry are very well known.

eon1 10y ago
> "Uber for planes" would be highly illegal, and everyone involved would get arrested. Unless, of course, it was actually Uber doing it.. then it would suddenly be made legal in 90% of the places it operated and have a blind eye turned to it in the other 10%. I saw a ton of gypsy cab services get shut down in my city before Uber came along.
vorg 10y ago
> "Uber for planes" would be highly illegal, and everyone involved would get arrested. Are you referring to the recent movie "I.T." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.T._(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.T._(film) where Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a airline company CEO who roles out an app that does for planes what Uber does for cars? He gets wrongfully arrested in the movie, but not for his "Uber for planes", but for something else. The roles in that film didn't square with reality. Brosnan portrayed an ethical family man and company director ignorant about IT, whereas in real life he'd be fiddling his company books, cheating on his wife, and using his business's IT infrastructure to illegally monitor his employees. The antagonist could talk to girls and run a sophisticated surveillance system, but couldn't shrug off a snub by Brosnan's character. None of it was believable. I wouldn't use anything in that film as a reference to real life.
- detaro 10y ago
  Probably to the real-life rules for non-commercial pilots, that strictly forbid to transport passengers for profit. They can only fairly share the operating costs, meaning if there are 3 "passengers" the pilot has to pay 25% of the cost and can not be paid any compensation for being the pilot, so you always lose money on it (in the US, but I assume rules are similar in many parts of the world).

by thisrod 10y ago

eon1 10y ago

> "Uber for planes" would be highly illegal, and everyone involved would get arrested. Unless, of course, it was actually Uber doing it.. then it would suddenly be made legal in 90% of the places it operated and have a blind eye turned to it in the other 10%. I saw a ton of gypsy cab services get shut down in my city before Uber came along.

vorg 10y ago

> "Uber for planes" would be highly illegal, and everyone involved would get arrested. Are you referring to the recent movie "I.T." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.T._(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.T._(film) where Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a airline company CEO who roles out an app that does for planes what Uber does for cars? He gets wrongfully arrested in the movie, but not for his "Uber for planes", but for something else. The roles in that film didn't square with reality. Brosnan portrayed an ethical family man and company director ignorant about IT, whereas in real life he'd be fiddling his company books, cheating on his wife, and using his business's IT infrastructure to illegally monitor his employees. The antagonist could talk to girls and run a sophisticated surveillance system, but couldn't shrug off a snub by Brosnan's character. None of it was believable. I wouldn't use anything in that film as a reference to real life.

detaro 10y ago
Probably to the real-life rules for non-commercial pilots, that strictly forbid to transport passengers for profit. They can only fairly share the operating costs, meaning if there are 3 "passengers" the pilot has to pay 25% of the cost and can not be paid any compensation for being the pilot, so you always lose money on it (in the US, but I assume rules are similar in many parts of the world).