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Re:Bye Aerospace Unveils 8-Seat All-Electric EFlyer 800 by manigandham on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:54PM (#26916674)
Isn't altitude ultimately a function of energy? If you're decreasing altitude wouldn't that be a decent amount of recovery?

Gas turbines need to keep running to sustain combustion but electric motors can start and stop instantly with current flow; it seems possible to use this as part of the dynamic control of the aircraft.

Re:Bye Aerospace Unveils 8-Seat All-Electric EFlyer 800 by dogma1138 on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:06PM (#26918639)
You don’t change altitude frequently enough and even if you could recover 80% of the energy you spent on reaching cruising altitude when you perform your landing approach it won’t be much, and probably won’t be worth the extra complexity and weight of an energy recovery system.

Unless we’re talking about very short flights the majority of your energy would be expanded at cruising altitude especially since electric engines have a fairly flat efficiency curve.