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An extraordinary moment for aviation! Our rule for training and certificating pilots to fly powered lift is the final piece of the puzzle to get these revolutionary aircraft flying safely in our skies.

FAA Mike Whitaker

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berkmu71 year ago

@FAANews Congratulations FAA, America continues to be the light of the world and we look forward to these next generation air taxis!! 👍🏼

shortfinal1 year ago

Cool, fine whatever... Just rebuild the Notam system - it's killing people. And make ADSB and 2-way comms mandatory for all flight over 500agl. And make straight-ins into uncontrolled airports a mandatory revocation

FlyandSki1 year ago

Glad to see the @FAANews focused on the 1% and their travel needs!

UAVHive1 year ago

@FAASafetyBrief Can you ensure within the FAA there's someone with sufficient hardware & software knowledge to spot any eVTOLs being passed off as bespoke developed kit that are really running on drone components using "borrowed" open source code? Such shenanigans are going on...

Cassandra1 year ago

Congratulations, Brother 🇺🇸

berkmu71 year ago

@FAANews Congratulations and America is moving full speed ahead in the world

ArchAngel1 year ago

@FAANews As long as we're moving forward and not "hovering" (aka hindering) innovation, advancement, and productivity.

berkmu71 year ago

@FAANews Bravo 👏🏻 Congratulations FAA, America continues to be the light of the world and we look forward to these next generation air taxis! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

marktwaalfhoven1 year ago

Stop putting safety ahead of innovation. To innovate we need to take risks If we take risks, some thing will break

Bryan de Paepe1 year ago

To keep them flying and not crashing into houses will need a ubiquitously educated smart society, the current state is unconducive towards such endeavors.

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