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Sport pilot with ~10 years of experience and a few hundred hours: I would never fly such a plane. Not only it does not solve any real problems I have with flying planes, but I think it is the most insecure place to be when (not if) the s hits the f.

Biggest 2 problems I see with flying these days are engines and overall cost. Archaic engines with mixture adjustment are a thing that needs to go away (fuel injection anyone? 2024 is calling) and the ginormous cost of planes needs to change in order to sell. There is also the problem of decent avionics costing way too much, but this is included in the second main problem - it is 20 times cheaper to fly with an iPad than a decent glass cockpit, while the reliability can easily be compensating by having 2 iPads onboard, even a third as a backup.



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