To fly an airplane today, you must be mentally sharp, be in impeccable heath – yeah no colds allowed!, have sharp reflexes and focus on flying throughout the time of the flight! And then it takes an hour to get to the airport, another half hour before you can take off, and when you get to some place far, there is no transportation to take you anywhere. This is ridiculous!
I have started collecting those things about a plane, the pilot and its environment must change so anyone who can drive a car can fly an airplane … thats right, 17 year olds to 90 year olds, fat or slim, fast or slow, sick or well.
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| Feature | How it should work | Why it sucks today |
| Automatic Flaps | Slow down without flap or flaps must deploy automatically at low speeds | Slowing down is complicated and dangerous |
| Simple Yoke | Easier to climb – just pull yoke to climb, push the yoke to decent. A centered yoke MUST NOT produce a climb no matter what the power the setting! | |
| Auto Trim | NO TRIM. A centered yoke will never cause the plane to up or down! Its like the autopilot is always in altitude mode | |
| Pressure-independant Altimeter | Automatic pressure determination. No need to find AWOS or ASOS or any other bull shit! | |
| Automatic CTAF selection | ||
| Power affects ONLY speed | The power setting must only cause horizontal speed to change. Vertical rate must be controlled purely by yokE | |
| Car like pedals | Throttle and brake just like in car | |
| Auto Coordination | No rudder pedals | |
| Stability | Stable in BOTH pitch and roll | |
| No Over bank | Can never over bank | |
| Auto Pull Up on Bank | No altitude loss in bank! | |
| Auto X-wind correction | Automatic crosswind correction when tracking a route | |
| Non icing wings | Flight into known icing conditions, auto deicing and/or surfaces where icing cannot form | |
| NEVER stall | Never stall (but can increase speed to prevent stall), no matter what the load, what the bank, what the configuration | |
| No left turning tendency | ||
| High cross wind capability: at least 35 knots. | ||
| Can Land in a CRAB. | ||
| Low stall speed: 30 knots any config, any bank | ||
| Very STOL – 150′ takeoff 300′ landing | ||
| Head-up displays | Syntethic terrain on windows, not displays | |
| Automatic Load Balancing | Automatic load balancing (through announcements) | |
| Automatic fuel management | ||
| Parachute system | ||
| Automatic / always-on transponders | ||
| Collision avoidance system | ||
| Automatic mixture control | ||
| Safe propellors. Located at back and close to fuselage. Protective grill. Resistant to bird hits. Auto shutdown on bird hit | ||
| Auto Best Glide on Engine Failure | Automatic attitude adjustment to best glide on loss of engine power. Alarm sounds to pull parachute rip cord | |
| No VOR | No VOR bull shit. Just follow line on map and or boxes in the windscreen (virtual highway/augmented reality) | |
| Dual Engines | Dual redundant engines. Single throttle control | |
| Easy Start | just like a car. no fiddling with mixture. No flooding. No cold start procedure | |
| No master switch (but ok to have to electrical breaker) | ||
| No avionics switch | ||
| Backup battery for avionics | ||
| No flare required to land! | ||
| Pitch attitude must be automatically up when landing | ||
| Easy Landing | Landing procedure.
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| Accurate fuel left and range and time | ||
| Accurate internal oil indicator and engine light | ||
| No headset required! Quite interiors | ||
| Smooth operating doors | ||
| Select stations by identifiers, not frequencies | ||
| No audio panel! Can talk on either com by touching the com icon | ||
| Automatic tune to nearest station. Smart selection of nearest or destination frequency. | ||
| Automatic redundant fuel pumps | ||
| Full authority digital engine control system | ||
| Automatic fuel tank management (still multiple fuel tanks for safety) | ||
| Airbags | ||
| Airconditioning | ||
| Good Ventilation during taxi | ||
| Good visibility including ability to see close-range runway in landing and takeoff attitudes | ||
| Self-powered parking and push back – no need to push plane ever! | ||
| Fuel tanks easily accessible. No need to climb wing like in high-wing Cessnas | ||
| Automatic transponder codes – ATC either uses mode-S code or can interactively assign code | ||
| gps call out “climb to 10000” | ||
| Price <; $100k |
