Mon Dec 03, 2018 3:55 pm
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With the UN Climate Change Conference underway, what are we doing about it?
We are (most of us) flying around in machines using technology from more than 60 years ago. Plenty of people working on electric aircraft but what do we do in the meantime given the inordinate length of time it usually takes for anything new to be adopted in aviation.
Whilst GA might not be a very large contributor to climate change when compared to Chinese coal-fired power stations, will the cost of avgas and taxes placed on it make flying an old lycosaur a financial impossibility? Is the PA-28 and Cessna 172 destined to die in the next 5 years??
Should we be asking the CAA and EASA to exempt electric aircraft from the usual certification nonsense like Part 21 so that electric aircraft can be produced more quickly and for much less money??
I am now ashamed to tell people that my aircraft burns 10 Gallons of fuel per hour (giving me 15 mpg).
We are (most of us) flying around in machines using technology from more than 60 years ago. Plenty of people working on electric aircraft but what do we do in the meantime given the inordinate length of time it usually takes for anything new to be adopted in aviation.
Whilst GA might not be a very large contributor to climate change when compared to Chinese coal-fired power stations, will the cost of avgas and taxes placed on it make flying an old lycosaur a financial impossibility? Is the PA-28 and Cessna 172 destined to die in the next 5 years??
Should we be asking the CAA and EASA to exempt electric aircraft from the usual certification nonsense like Part 21 so that electric aircraft can be produced more quickly and for much less money??
I am now ashamed to tell people that my aircraft burns 10 Gallons of fuel per hour (giving me 15 mpg).
Last edited by Bob Upanddown on Mon Dec 03, 2018 4:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.