Originally Posted by
tossbag
The clown promoting the pipistrel trainer is full of it. It is clearly not anything a school can use effectively when a 90 minute recharge is required between flights for a sub 1.0 flight. He's also promoting a viable recharging network between airports, clearly airports need to be no more than 60nm apart. There's no doubt, that one day they will be viable, but not now and they are not environmentally friendly.
At the risk of talking this further off-topic (and with apologies to the original poster), I was amused to read in the news that Tecnam have pulled the pin on R&D of their "P-Volt" electric twin, Apparently the batteries just don't last as long as the manufacturers claim they do, meaning you could find your planned sub-1hr flight ending a random number of minutes after take-off with little or no warning at all!! ...and most likely one hour (or less) after the battery warranty expires.
https://www.australianflying.com.au/...work-on-p-volt
..and with that, we now return you to your previously-scheduled program...