Quantum Air buys Bye's electric airplanes

Re:Quantum Air buys Bye's electric airplanes by dmitrygr on Sunday August 25, 2019 @09:29AM (#20792839)

For carrying scheduled air passengers, you need to fly IFR. You need to have fuel to fly to destination airport, then to reserve airport, and then 45 minutes. No sane pilot flies with that little reserve. Most airlines have enough for destination, reserve, and 90-120 minutes. With that safety margin, this thing has a "useful" range of maybe 150 nautical miles

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Re:Quantum Air buys Bye's electric airplanes by FabHK on Sunday August 25, 2019 @06:24PM (#20796010)

This is not scheduled, but Air Taxi, which I believe is a different part of the FAR. And, yes, for small planes, there are plenty of alternate airports. I'd say 200 NM or more are realistic.

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Re:Quantum Air buys Bye's electric airplanes by wongarsu on Sunday August 25, 2019 @02:56PM (#20794769)

However it's a four-seater that has substantially more landing options than a 747.

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Re:Quantum Air buys Bye's electric airplanes by Scoundreller on Sunday August 25, 2019 @01:23PM (#20794160)

For floatplanes, you can nix some of those requirements.

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