Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
In LA, the weather is usually pretty good, though vis can get hazy. A better market than NYC, where crap weather is quite common.
Nice post ETOPS, thanks, and I think that introduction in the LA area will allow them to gloss over the bad weather risks of dense urban environments like Manhattan ...
I recently rented a Tesla after a flight so I could test drive it. I was in a hot environment, 100°F, and found that a major power suck was air conditioning. The car exhausted 75% of it's just fully charged battery in a 125 mile trip; in SoCal this might be a real issue for electric aircraft endurance. This trip convinced me there is still a ways to go before I'll consider and EV, as I do quite a bit of fairly long distance drives and weather here does stay hot in the summer.