Originally Posted by
joshperry
If anyone is to blame it's the anachronistic state of technology that the aviation sector finds itself in outside of corporate and large commercial carriers. I'm from the tech sector, and I'm frankly embarrased by how little advancement the industry has made since I got my SEL ticket over a decade ago by skrimping and scraping for every hour.
Advancement occurs slowly due to all the compliance testing that is done. This is the ongoing battle between the tech sector getting into the e-vtol and the FAA. Tech sector wants to just change the software to fix a problem and move on. FAA requires validating the software to make sure that one change doesn't affect other systems or flight performance. Once a product is certified, no one wants to spend the money to recertify the product unless there a good ROI.