Originally Posted by
Hedge36
As with so many issues, money talks. Which means when the industry builds up an expensive inventory of aircraft without crews to fly them, funds will be devoted to lobbying the hallowed halls for changes to the FAA's way of thinking.
There will be lobbying,for sure, but it will have to be the whole community because of the precedent set. There isn't going to be an expensive inventory built if you can't train crews, because no one will buy a powered lift vehicle. This also affects the situation because the way the rule is written if you wanted to certify a powered lift vehicle for single pilot operation you would have to first design, build an certify a two pilot craft to meet the training requirement (simulators don't meet the rule) in order to provide the new person's PIC time with another person who has a powered lift rating they can't get. This will also affect eVTOLs
As you may be aware, getting a bureaucracy to admit it made a mistake is one of the hardest tasks on earth