TapJets was just being incredibly stupid here. Pilots and airlines know the regulations and know if they mess with them they’ll get hit hard. Anyone that knows

TapJets was just being incredibly stupid here. Pilots and airlines know the regulations and know if they mess with them they’ll get hit hard. Anyone that knows anything about aviation is just rolling their eyes at TapJet and saying good riddence. The “Uber” model of just blatantly ignoring regulations to get a leg up doesn’t work in aviation. While pilots and airlines aren’t exactly fans of the FAA, most would say that on the whole the system works well—and in both general aviation and our ATC system the US is the envy of the aviation world. TapJet isn’t the first, but hopefully the last, startup to try such shenanigans.