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Old 29th Nov 2015, 19:35
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Recreational flying in a few decades?

- EASA might have come to some sort of consensus about the IMC

- The PPL will still be predominately WW2 based (shooting flare guns at towers) but might, might, just might, have a nod to GPS (an obsolete tech in 2050).

- Older pilots will proudly fly on GPS telling youngsters that Quantum Triangulation could fail and so they need to keep their skills sharp in the basics

- Planes will still be PA28s or C172, however they will be mostly from the 1990s but still smell a bit of rotting carpet

- All newer planes are downloaded from a company in Brazil and 3D printed

- Most pilots will be seen as idiosynchratic pedants because the majority of people travel by neutron beam teleportation which is instantaneous
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