A personal aircraft : Kitty Hawk Flyer

A little more detail: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/flying-car-technology.html?_r=0
 
Grey Havoc said:
A little more detail: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/flying-car-technology.html?_r=0

The brain dead and ridiculous FAA wants a pilot's license for the privilege of hovering a handful of feet over your local watering hole.
 
Airplane said:
Grey Havoc said:
A little more detail: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/flying-car-technology.html?_r=0

The brain dead and ridiculous FAA wants a pilot's license for the privilege of hovering a handful of feet over your local watering hole.

You are right. Those are toys and a new category with restricted altitude should be created given the many and invariable forms that distributed propulsion can take. Given that all of then will be fitted with an accelerometer, perhaps that borning an interval in the vertical readings should do the trick? (can't fly more than h0 + X [m] ; h0 being a GPS reading for site elevation and x being the maximum authorized value in alt). Alternatively, recreation zones free of restriction could be quickly opened with on-site regulations.
 

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