Originally Posted by
Squawk7700
That Cairns one doesn’t seem to fly very high. Looks like a half decent wave would end your dar early.
That, plus the excessive noise the engine generates reflected off of the water (think floatplane takeoff, but for the entire journey!), seems to be the main reasons the WIGE concept hasn't really ever taken off (pardon the pun).
IIRC, a few years ago someone tried to start a charter service between the Bellarine and Melbourne in one (I think it was an Airfish also) but the business model fell flat for those reasons. Maybe it's the one now in Cairns?
Using an electric motor is the
only way this concept is ever going to get off the ground (/water) commercially, but you then have the waves to contend with - plus randoms on jetskis. Nahh, it'll never work.
