Its not easy to become a pilot right now..in the future will it be so easy to learn to fly a plane as a car?

Question

Will piloting in the future be so simple as learning how to drive a car in just a few weeks ?Will people own a cessna aircraft one day as a normal car nowadays?? What i mean to say is ::will aviation be a so simple thing in the future and everyone will own a cessna plane as a car right now and so on>>??if so in how long can this happen?

Answer 1

no because jet fuel is expensive and running out, that would work for about 3 weeks b4 all the oil in earth was used up.

and not to mention having tens of thousands of planes flying around will be a bit of a issue for safety

Answer 2

Learning to fly a plane is the easy part. Ten year old kids have flown little Cessnas after a few lessons. And the latest jets are controlled by computers and could probably fly without pilots (if we could all believe that computers never go wrong..... yeah).

The hard part would be all the rules and regulations and keeping out of everyone elses way. How often do cars bump into each other? Usually nobody gets killed. But when planes bump, usually there are lots of deaths.

Maybe, in the future, computers and a new reliable power source will allow safe flying cars (that automatically go from home to where you want to go, avoiding other planes, and not allowing the driver/pilot to do anything dangerous). At least 50 years, I guess.

Answer 3

I don't believe that flying will ever be something done so casually as driving a car for a variety of reasons:

-You would still need a car to get to your airplane. There are too many people for all of us to live in walking distance of a 3000-foot runway.

-Flying is not remotely safe in incliment weather. Even a stiff breeze is rough.

-A "practical" airplane is also expensive to own and operate. The "toy" airplanes (such as ultralights) aren't so expensive, but also are really just fair weather airplanes.

I could go on, but those are the main points. If someone ever finds a way to make flying significantly less expensive, maybe more people could own airplanes. But a new Cessna is $150,000 or more. Airplane engines start at what a car costs -- just for the engine. And an airplane burns gas at $18 / hour (low end) to $30 / hour (modest) to $75 / hour (a fast 6-seater). You can drive an average car for about $5 / hour for gas.

Answer 4

While nobody can predict the future, 100 years ago, most people thought that the airplane was just a novelty. Heck, the US Army said it could NEVER be used as a weapon of war, and look how that prediction turned out. Many aircraft and avionics companies are trying to make being able to fly a plane easier. Also, NASA is trying to find new ways to teach people to fly, as well as make sky traffic work like highway traffic. In 100 years, we will most likely not be all flying airplanes, but some sort of hovercraft that runs on a fuel we haven't yet perfected.

Answer 5

First of all you still need ground school to learn to fly a glider. Second, when you learn to fly a glider you learn more energy management about flight, which is good. You have to learn how far you can go with your height and speed and know where to find thermals to stay aloft. Giving that learning to fly a glider is VERY helpful with understanding flight principles. With an engine you can apply power and climb. In a glider you fly way ahead of any situation. A glider is a long way from a jumbo. I cannot say if the airlines prefer glider pilots, however I do not think glider experience is preferred for jumbo pilots. I have not seen too many jumbos gliding.

Answer 6

PILOTING isn't at all like DRIVING. Consider the following:
1) You're under time pressure to attend your father-in-law's funeral in the next state. En route you encounter a severe thunderstorm. If you're driving, you pull off the highway and wait for the weather to clear. Could be hours, maybe even overnight. If you're flying, though, you can't pull over; you can't even see the ground. And you're being battered by the storm winds. If you're not instrument qualified, and the storm lasts for hours, your funeral might be next.

2) You're returning from the funeral, where you downed three alcoholic drinks. If you're driving, you're going just a little too fast for conditions, but you finally decide to sleep off the drinks, and pull into a rest area. If you're flying, though, if you SOMEHOW got the craft straight down the runway and off the ground, your chances of attending you own funeral in three days have just increased tremendously. Reason: Alcohol shoots your visual perception just to hell. You probably won't recognize your home airport from the air. If you somehow do, if somehow you enter the landing pattern without colliding or going into a spin, the alcohol just KILLS your depth perception. You should be 800 feet up in the traffic pattern, but you might be 80 feet -- or 1800 feet. Whether you come in too high, OR too low, you'll be unlikely to walk away from the resultant crash. If you have several angels from Heaven watching over you, and you DO come in at near the right height, just HOW will you finesse the craft onto the runway? Have you EVER met a drunkard with finesse? I never have. The odds are great that you'll be leaving parts of your craft on the runway.

OF COURSE, if, under alcohol's influence, you take off with a stiff crosswind, or you are forced to LAND with a crosswind, the odds of keeping your craft intact are about one in a hundred.

DO YOU STILL want to fly to the funeral?
PS: The VERY BEST aircraft cannot nullify the laws of nature.

Answer 7

It probably wont happen, for the main reason that they have already tried to make something like this happen, they have tried to get an aero car popular in the 60s (I believe), basically trying to mate a sedan with a cessna. The problems you will face is peoples fear of flying (or fear of crashing as I like to say), very crowded skies, and just imagine how upset you get when you see a young driver doing something stupid on the ground!!! Imagine it in the air. Its not hard to fly an aircraft, the difficult part is the book stuff, understanding airspace, communications, pilotage and navigation. Basically its just not practical for aircraft to be used like a daily driver as cars are used. Are airplanes and rotorcraft useful, you bet, but are they practical for everyone?
No.

Answer 8

Yes, it will be. Car's started out requiring a mechanical mind and was VERY physical.

As for flying becoming more common, ask my next door neighbor. He's building a flying car. I had been following another flying car, Moller's Skycar (www.moller.com) but it never really seems to go to full testing.

When I talked to my neighbor, I asked every possible question for why his would fail. It is well thought out...but back to your question...

The easiest type of plane to fly is a cannard style craft. The reason being that they are harder to crash. When there isn't sufficient power for them to fly (called a stall) they will simply go into a glide position until they gain enough speed to cause lift. They don't flop out of control as easily.

While his FSC-1 isn't going to be cheap, it's possible that over time it might cost about half of a private plane and has all the other advantages mentioned on his site.

Feel free to write me if you have questions.

http://www.labicheaerospace.com/

Answer 9

Irt is very difficult to learn all the skills and knowledge necessary to fly an airplane. I personlly do not believe it will ever be "simple" though it may get streamlined a bit in the future. In a car, you really only need to think about 1 dimension...forward. You speed up and slow down, but as long as you dont hit something directly in front of you you'll probably be ok. In an airplane, you need to expand to three dimensions. You not only have forward speed, but sideways drift, and vertical altitude. So at the very least it three times harder to fly than to drive.

Answer 10

It's not cheap, but it's not difficult either. Sign up for lessons and have a great time. Airplanes will never replace cars, but maybe someday, some new kind of aircraft will. For now, go ahead and enjoy the freedom of flight, even if most people don't.