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Re: EUEUEUEUEU dreams of ''flying cars'', other robotics advances |
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Posted by WillD on Tue Jan 17 00:33:39 2012, in response to Re: EUEUEUEUEU dreams of ''flying cars'', other robotics advances, posted by Dan Lawrence on Mon Jan 16 21:12:10 2012. There is a flying car (or at least a roadable aircraft), the Terrafugia Transition. But it's a Light Sport Aircraft, so it doesn't require a private pilots license or a 'first class pilots license' (whatever that is), and the light sport pilot certificate doesn't even require a medical certificate. It'll be interesting to see the impact this has on GA airports. Enforcement of ramp fees (which makes up a non-trivial percentage of revenue, particularly at fields that lack flight training or maintenance facilities) is usually dependent upon the pilot having to park their plane and walk through a gate to pay their fee or buy fuel. If the Terrafugia is a success, there are conceivably a number of airports where a pilot can avoid ramp fees by driving something like a Terrafugia onto the taxiways from outside. The potential exists for small GA airports to take a significant revenue hit if pilots transition from conventional Cessnas, Pipers and Beeches to the Transition. To prevent further contraction of our already battered General Aviation airport system groups like AOPA may be forced to choose between user fees and the subsidization of privately owned airports, or the loss of those fields. |
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