FAA changes course on eVTOL certification

I'm usually not anti-government, but the FAA has absolutely lost its way and is causing far more harm than good nowadays. Look at lead in avgas. The Boeing fiascos. Inability and cost of innovating in the space. America is being left behind in global aviation.

Onerous certification incentivizes companies to invent in other countries.<p>The FAA has become increasing bureaucratic and in many cases it is causing safety issues. Take the recent case where they deemed it illegal to do a low-pass over a private airstrip to assess safety prior to landing.<p>I&#x27;d like to see the FAA do a pass over existing and new regulations to see if they can generalize any of the rules. IE if the concern for safety is due to momentum&#x2F;potential energy, codify that rather than separate limitations on weight and speed.

I’m not sure why this classification wasn’t used originally. This shift makes sense to me but I’m also unable to read the entire article.

Could someone with an aviation background chime in on what this entails? I would think that VTOL pilot&#x2F;aircraft certification would be more stricter&#x2F;tighter than light aircrafts. I wonder if this move was made by the FAA being slightly concerned about the safety, though the AW609 mentioned in the (initial) part of the article is a light aircraft... which raises the question on why VTOL rules weren&#x27;t applied right from the start.<p>Side note: why does this website restrict copying text, or even middle-button scrolling?

Wow, bad timing for Eve Air Mobility, who just started trading on the NYSE this morning.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;evtol.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;eve-goes-public-nyse-zanite-shareholders-approve-merger&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;evtol.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;eve-goes-public-nyse-zanite-sharehold...</a>

I hope the FAA and EVTOL companies can work this out and these new rules don&#x27;t significantly disrupt or destroy such a nascent industry. Of course the aircraft need to be safe but I hope there will still be a clear path for them to become fully certified.

A few more details without a paywall.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flyingmag.com&#x2F;faa-modifying-approach-to-evtol-certification&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flyingmag.com&#x2F;faa-modifying-approach-to-evtol-ce...</a>

Anybody noticed that you can&#x27;t highlight text on this website? When I try to double click, it pops up an &quot;! <i>ALERT:</i> Content is protected !!&quot;. Seems like a futile usefulness oversight, especially since if I really need to, I can:<p>- copy the text via eyeballs-&gt;keyboard<p>- copy the text from the dev console<p>- take a screenshot and extract the text with Google Photos or something

I&#x27;m glad the FAA is clamping down on these... I don&#x27;t want one of these falling on my house because someone forgot to set the environment variables.