Lilium achieves first main wing transition for all-electric aircraft [video]

Re:Lilium achieves first main wing transition for all-electr... by merely-unlikely on Sunday June 12, 2022 @01:19PM (#31716261)

I was under the impression you can only fly over the rivers. Is that not true?

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Re:Lilium achieves first main wing transition for all-electr... by mlyle on Sunday June 12, 2022 @01:38PM (#31716466)

There's a VFR corridor over the rivers where you don't have to talk to air traffic control. Otherwise, you're going to need to talk to LaGuardia.

If you're a tour operator and want to use a city heliport, you need to sign a very restrictive agreement about operations, too-- which allows only limited overland stuff (e.g. flying over Yankee's Stadium/the Bronx). Mostly because people were sick of tourist helicopters constantly hovering over Central Park.

https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/rules-tightene...

None of this has anything directly to do with 9/11. Crashes of tourist helicopters and noise concerns has caused the city to clamp down on use of helipads. Crashes of air taxi operations in the 1970s caused the removal of the vast majority of helipads.

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