I've got a few hours flying light planes...
this thing looks like it'll fly like "lr Bitch"

@Vintage Racer:
"le Bitch"... it's always funnier if you can type it right....

This "hoaky" of which you speak - please explain what that is.

And they plan on putting an engine where?

What? Does this thing have a set of bike pedals for the driver and passenger?

I smell snake oil.

Input from another pilot ... lousy automobile, non-functional aircraft.

The whole flying car idea is a hold-over from the 1930's and needs to be laid to rest.

Not to mention the notion of the average dumbass driver with a latte in the cupholder and a cell phone held to the ear at 5,000 feet in my airspace.

Far surpasses MY pucker factor.

Not good enough. The REAL flying car must be able to take off from a stand still. It also must be compact (No exposed wings or props.) and be able to hover.

Get back with me when that is possible.

-KTHNX

@Smitty: Reminds me, adding another rule:
Added altitude limiters and laws just like speed limits.

Cannot exceed 1000-1300ft outside the city and must have an Auto pilot control for inner-city navigation. Not only idiots driving in airspace, but idiots driving into office space.

The complexities and redundancies necessary to construct a reliable aircraft are very expensive. And they're very fragile, relative to what our cars have to undergo.

I think the whole idea is stupid. Ground vs. air transportation is one area where specialization is absolutely necessary.

Whoops! Wife clipped a mail box with the wing while backing up? Better take it to the shop and hope they have an A&P mechanic available and pray the bill doesn't hit five figures.

@Dr.Danger: That means you have to have an additional class of airspace from the FAA. Which means they have to change the rules for existing airspace, update all low altitude maps & charts, AND update current existing digital maps. Flying cars have a snowballs chance at this point.

@Smitty:
Gotta agree. Too many people have trouble with driving in 2 dimensions.... let alone 3.

@ash78: Or: "Someone stuck a banana in my PW300, now i need a new turbine. Looks like I will have to refinance the house to fix it."

@DustyButt: Exactly!
Unless it can fit with this criteria, I don't want people to say they came out with a flying car.

Sorry but this car is just stupid, and is probably the brain child of a bunch of 50 year old euro-nerds. Did I mention that this car is stupid?

@Dr.Danger: You said it needs to take off standing still. DIdn't you watch the video? It levitates after the tires return to normal position.

"Honey, I'm taking the Osprey to work tomorrow. Just go ahead and pay the HOA noise fine. Oh, and tell the cops that decapitation was accidental. That kid was playing in OUR yard, after all. I should sue HIS family for the new prop. That'll teach 'em!"

Why do they always seem to use the car as the starting point?

Might it not be slightly more viable to take some existing tiny aircraft, and then look at giving it some small engine/electric motor power for the highway?

Folding wings and all that stuff needed, but at least your market would be pilots.

Just thinking out loud, haven't figured the crash testing bit yet.

Although at least the seatbelts should be okay.

@Stoatmaster: I may have mentioned this before, but I call it the "Armageddon Effect" (the Michael Bay movie, that is).

This postulate states that it's easier to train oil riggers to be astronauts than it is to train astronauts to be oil riggers. Duh!

You notice that people are always trying to come up with a "flying car" and no one ever thinks to make a "driving plane". I think it would be much better to build a Grand Touring car out of a Gulfstream G5.

@graverobber: Does the Arial Atom count?

I've met the inventor. He was at a trade show that my company attended for aerospace. Funny to see his booth down the row from Lockheed Martin and other big companies. I was NOT impressed by the progress he had made and the I highly doubt this will ever come of anything substantial. He had a full size mockup which looked very ackward, a miniature R/C version that supposedly really flew and a full size simulator setup. Lots of money invested here, but it was a long way from being complete.

1949 called. They want to know why their Aerocar is still not in mass production.

If Poplar Mechanics only knew how many young lads dreamed of owining the aerocar for their paper route!

@smokeydog001: I think the sell a kit. Next to the gyrocopter and the DIY garage.

@Dr.Danger: no can't you see it hovering when the wheels retract into the body and nothing is holding it up?

By the time you're ready to fly, speeding past all the other cars will earn you clipped wings and certain doom.

@workingonyourinvoice: @laxman15: LIES!