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How are you going to address the insurance, ownership costs, and FAA certifications for this? Atm, the real barriers to entry in the market are the insanely hi
by calmbonsai 2y ago
How are you going to address the insurance, ownership costs, and FAA certifications for this?
Atm, the real barriers to entry in the market are the insanely high regulatory and liability compliance costs--not flight aides, pilot training, or folks with the desire to fly.
- Look at the long path that Cirrus had to take with it's "Safe Return" auto-landing feature.
- Look at the decades-long adoption curve of even basic/obvious tech like 100LL avgas.
- Look at Bye Aerospace's struggles bringing a simple "go-kart" electric training aircraft to market
I'm not optimistic for ANY substantive innovation in this space without a serious overhaul of the regulatory environment.
- calmbonsai 2y agoThat should read "low-lead 100LL" avgas. Basically, the FAA drug their feet despite over a decade of independent testing data that indicated it was perfectly safe to run 100 octane equivalent "low-lead" in almost every extant GA engine. In the few that couldn't do it (mostly WW2 vintage stuff), they could be adapted to run it during their next required overhaul. These sorts of planes are mostly "ramp-toys" and only get a few tens-of-hours of flight-time every year at air-shows and meet-ups so they have very little environmental and gestalt time-in-airspace safety concerns anyways.