Luis

I am a private pilot. As one who travels the Victor Airways I can emphatically tell you flying cars will never become a reality. Air traffic controllers go to great lengths to keep us pilots on course, and on our filed flight plans. Envisioning non-pilots just flittering around in the airspace above at whim is ridiculous. Pilots travel on prescribed routes similar to a freeway in the sky with vertical separation rules. Even if non-pilots could fly at whim they would have to stay on a defined route, and with so many so-called flying cars traveling at the same time avoidance rules will be even more important, so the freedom of flight is not so free. I’ve been hearing and reading about flying cars since I was a young boy, and not one of them has ever come to fruition. Sure, there are lots of visionaries, however, they may be great at designing but absolute morons in regard to feasibility. Imagine someone getting into a flying car after visiting a local watering hole, or flying with a bad case of road rage. They call us folks who hold a pilot’s license pilots for a reason; we have spent many hours in ground school, and many more in flight instruction. We usually accumulate many more hours obtaining our commercial or instrument ratings or supplemental training like preparing for unusual attitudes. We value our training and the tens of thousands of dollars we have poured into it, and don’t want to share the sky with non-pilots. I can’t imagine some folks getting into a flying car; it would be suicide. The death toll would be staggering. Insurance costs would be unimaginable. And, let’s not forget those people on the ground. You know who they are – the ones who expect those who take to the sky to be properly licensed, and trained in pilotage, navigation, ground school, and general flying ability, so they don’t wind up crashing into a grade school, hospital, or someone’s home. Finally, there is something we pilots call lift-to-weight ratio. To carry one to four passengers, fuel, and the flying car’s structure you would need several thousand pounds of vertical thrust – do you really want to drive around something comparable to the British Harrier jet, consuming hundreds of gallons of fuel per hour? Can we just put the nonsense of flying cars behind us now?

Welcome to the new Dimensions my friends..

Cheers..Happy Flying Opps Happy Driving too : )

HOLLY

To the investors that bypassed my plan: “The reason I’m not giving you all my information is because in 2000 when I first tried to get help with my car company, everything that was in my letters has been built without me. None of them have given me any consent. They just created their own companies thinking that I don’t now I inspired them. Well I know! And your companies will collect dust and will never prosper because it was not for you to build those companies without me!”
Tesla Motors, Fisker, Venturi, Lightning Car Company and many others that surfaced after 2000.

This flying car does exist, which is the joke I was trying to make. It’s called the Moller Skycar and you can find more about it at Moller.com/skycar.htm

It appears as though they’re not currently taking orders for the Skycar, as of January 2009.

In spite of the humorous irrelevance of this photo, it’s apparently well optimized, as it causes this page to rank highly for the phrase “flying car” and related terms. More than 90% of this site’s Google traffic comes from image search related to those queries. To me that doesn’t say much about Google’s understanding of a site’s core relevance; but it does speak volumes to the reality of image search optimization. Tutorials on how to get more from image search in a future post.