I love the idea & I love to fly but building and operating air planes is a shitty business.
Technology wise we could have fly by wire fully automated planes, vtol, and helicopters easily (at least in limited areas first). The problem is not tech it's regulation, insurance, backwards compatibility and scale.
Sadly scale is the killer. You would need a Toyota for airplanes but your market to sell is tiny. You just cannot spread your dev costs over huge volumes of planes. I have seen aero dynamic designs which are comparable to fuel efficient cars but travel at 200mph. But it's very expensive and risky to build a company around it.
What you might be able to break into is Garmins market but hard! Maybe new markets like electric planes or vtol.
I hope I am wrong and you are right. I wish you guys succeed bc GA aviation is stuck in 1970s.
Technology wise we could have fly by wire fully automated planes, vtol, and helicopters easily (at least in limited areas first). The problem is not tech it's regulation, insurance, backwards compatibility and scale.
Sadly scale is the killer. You would need a Toyota for airplanes but your market to sell is tiny. You just cannot spread your dev costs over huge volumes of planes. I have seen aero dynamic designs which are comparable to fuel efficient cars but travel at 200mph. But it's very expensive and risky to build a company around it.
What you might be able to break into is Garmins market but hard! Maybe new markets like electric planes or vtol.
I hope I am wrong and you are right. I wish you guys succeed bc GA aviation is stuck in 1970s.