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What you see in that photo is a flying car, what I see is a helicopter. The FAA requires a fairly expensive pilots license to fly helicopters. Only the rich that can afford flying in helicopters will be able to fly in your so called flying car. Worse yet for the British; FYI There are an estimated 27,000 civil aircraft registered in the UK, 96 per cent of which are engaged in GA activities. In 2005 the GA fleet comprised 9,000 fixed-wing aircraft, 4,100 microlights, 1,300 helicopters, 1,800 airships/balloons, 2,500 gliders and some 7,000 hang gliders. The number of pilots licensed by the CAA to fly powered aircraft in 2005 was 47,000, of whom 28,000 held a Private Pilot Licence. The remainder held professional pilot licences, either a Commercial Pilot Licence or an Airline Transport Pilot Licence, although not all of these would be engaged in GA activities. In addition, there are 10,000 active glider pilots, and estimates put the membership of aviation-related sport and recreational associations at 36,000. As for the USA; s of the end of 2019, in the US, there were an estimated 664,565 active certificated pilots. The number of aircraft in the United States has decreased in 2020, estimates holding that the general aviation fleet was 204,980 aircraft, and the for-hire carrier fleet was 5,882 aircraft. Relatively speaking, the UK had 32.7 million registered automobiles and there were 281 million registered vehicles in the USA. |
UK start-up to build flying taxi hubs in 65 cities
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If they do end up doing flying cars there’s going to have to be some coordination with regulating how it would work with all the other air traffic. No one living near an airport would be able to have one, or some solution to build garages/hangers for those people away from the landing zones. Maybe they’d have to fly at a particular altitude, or prevent them from going above an altitude that could be reserved for planes? Additionally, helicopters are incredibly dangerous when they fly near buildings, or anywhere there’s people. I’m assuming they would have to make some laws in regards to the propellers, among other things, as having flying cars now poses a threat to people on the ground.
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Inside wild plans for roads in the sky fit for ‘flying cars’
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Getting to 99.9% safety is great, but I wanna know about the last 0.1%...when the aircar dies, it won't just pause at the side of the road...
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Dubai: Flying taxis to be fully operational by 2026
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