>Is it an issue that training will be a different sorts of planes than graduates will fly or are the characteristics close enough? Flight training goes through

>Is it an issue that training will be a different sorts of planes than graduates will fly or are the characteristics close enough? Flight training goes through various phases. Just like traditional education, you have primary, elementary, and secondary. Primary flight training consists of the fundamental “stick and rudder” skills which all pilots from a Cessna to a 747 must posess. In fact, the US Air Force academy starts all fighter pilot candidates out flying gliders for this very reason. Electric flight will absolutely revolutionize this portion of training because the primary limiting factor in one’s ability to perfect those skills is cost. And the overwhelming majority of cost in a single engine aircraft is the engine itself; gas, oil, maintenance, overhauls. All of these things will be obliviated, freeing pilot’s resources to obtain multiple times the amount of hours as is currently the case. Not only will this be good for pilots, but the industry and public safety as a whole will be greatly enriched by the increase in basic flight skills that have started to slip over the years due to the exorbitant cost of primary training.