FAA’s Final eVTOL SFAR Provides A Path To Commercial Service

Joby’s S4 eVTOL

Joby’s S4 eVTOL has a single pilot station with single flight controls and no room for dual controls and​ an instructor pilot.

Credit: Joby Aviation
How to train pilots to fly a vehicle that cruises like a fixed-wing airplane but takes off and lands like a helicopter has been central to the FAA’s approach in regulating electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft. Before May 2022, the emerging electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL)...
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