Clarification? If you want to terrify the FAA, just use the word battery and safety in the same sentence. People use electricity every day, but they are afraid of it and don’t really understand it. Burning fuel has its problems too but people don’t have an abhorrent fear of it. The best solution is using both. A backup is easy to understand. By using a gas powered system to generate electricity, it will satisfy the safety concerns, greatly extend flight time and keep investors happy.
PR types do not communicate well.
I’m curious how the FAA expects someone to get a commercial certificate for one of these when a 250 nm cross country leg is required, and Joby’s record flight length is 155 statute miles.
c.f: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-61/subpart-F#p-61.129(e)(4)(i)
I suppose we’ll have to rent a V22 for that requirement?
That’s what I was thinking, and I was surprised that it wasn’t that category from the beginning.
No pilots; no pilot certification requirements. Duh.
But good luck with those tilt-rotor rules.