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The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million (www.zmescience.com)
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[โ€“] HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's crazy is you can build a kit plane for less than what this costs, and flying a kit plane does NOT need a pilot license in the US.

[โ€“] druidjaidan@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

Woah woah woah. Not even close to true. The only things you can fly without a license is a single seat ultralight, paramotor, and similar things that most people would barely think of as a plane. There are very specific and restrictive requirements, both on the aircraft and what you can do with it.

Anything bigger, homebuilt or not, will require a LSA license at least ans many (if not most) a full PPL.