Oh, it's a flight school. Perhaps it's not a scam, then. Places where electric planes might make commercial sense: Pretty much anywhere you could use an unpowered glider.
It really isn't. Today's unpowered gliders are astoundingly capable compared to anything the Wright brothers lived to see, and that they're not suitable for replacing all of commercial aviation as it exists today should not be taken as a slight against them.
Most of it will need to be replaced by ground-based transport.
Around Nanaimo, Victoria and the Vancouver Islands seems like the perfect spot for being the first places to replace shorthaul fossil-fuel-based flights and small ferries with electric planes.
That will likely never happen in our lifetimes. Burning fuel has the unique advantage of reducing weight the longer you’re in flight. It’s also (kg for kg) offers far greater energy density when compared to battery.
That said, short flights between Vancouver and Victoria are an ideal use-case for electric aviation. Also means less maintenance on the plane and no lead being showered on us from above from spent Avgas which is something we should all want.
actually watched a video this morning about how female Grizzlies are keeping their cubs close to roads/parking lots/tourists etc because male grizzlies will avoid these areas.
I've seen how badly deer can wreck cars, I'd hate the see what a bear does. Probably better than moose, those things are too cars what a can opener is to a Campbell's soup.
I mean, my first thought was basically verbatim what the comment you're responding to said. But I was thinking about whether the collision would have killed the passengers of the car, not just "is the car okay?"
To be fair I don't think him bringing this questioning means he doesn't care about the living. It's sad for the animals and the injured humans, but what is the kind of impact?
Dead humans. If you're talking about moose, at least part of the time the result is dead humans—an elementary school classmate of mine (in northern Ontario) lost an uncle that way. Serious damage to cars often means serious damage to occupants.
Collisions with the local bears tended to be worse for the bears than the humans, because bears are lighter and lower to the ground then moose. They were also much rarer, because bears are less likely to stand in the middle of a narrow highway with a 90km/h speed limit and just chill.
But one train is easier to dodge than a bunch of unique cars and drivers. Also trains have a whistle they can blow whenever they're in high wildlife corridors.
Those little electric Pipistrels have been getting more common for instruction and pattern work down here for a bit too. I’m told they’re great fun if you just need to do a lot of sub hour flights every day.
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