I will just never understand how so many people look at a broken down car on the side of the highway, then think "what if whatever happened to that vehicle was the same, but 5,000 feet in the air?"
Cars and airplanes do not have the same maintenance requirements. An airplane has strict maintenance protocols that are needed regardless of if it is in-use or not. Critical maintenance items require sign-off by a specialized department. If the pilot doesn't have the proper maintenance logs and approvals then the plane gets grounded. Yeah sure, some idiot could circumvent that at a private airport, but obtaining a pilot's license is time consuming and expensive, and the vast majority of pilots take aviation regulations very seriously.
Why would a different type of vehicle that also flies in the air not need to follow similar maintenance requirements?
The only reason cars and car drivers aren't held to the same standard is because if a car breaks, it just stops moving. If a plane, even just a single passenger one, stops working, it falls out of the sky.
It would require the same maintenance standards as an airplane. Heck, it probably has even stricter standards than a standard airplane because it'll see a lot of ground use. I never meant to imply that it wouldn't. I was replying to your broken down car on the side of the highway analogy, attempting to assure you that flying cars will never be treated with that level of lenience.
I will just never understand how so many people look at a broken down car on the side of the highway, then think "what if whatever happened to that vehicle was the same, but 5,000 feet in the air?"
Cars and airplanes do not have the same maintenance requirements. An airplane has strict maintenance protocols that are needed regardless of if it is in-use or not. Critical maintenance items require sign-off by a specialized department. If the pilot doesn't have the proper maintenance logs and approvals then the plane gets grounded. Yeah sure, some idiot could circumvent that at a private airport, but obtaining a pilot's license is time consuming and expensive, and the vast majority of pilots take aviation regulations very seriously.
Why would a different type of vehicle that also flies in the air not need to follow similar maintenance requirements?
The only reason cars and car drivers aren't held to the same standard is because if a car breaks, it just stops moving. If a plane, even just a single passenger one, stops working, it falls out of the sky.
It would require the same maintenance standards as an airplane. Heck, it probably has even stricter standards than a standard airplane because it'll see a lot of ground use. I never meant to imply that it wouldn't. I was replying to your broken down car on the side of the highway analogy, attempting to assure you that flying cars will never be treated with that level of lenience.