[Sandy Reith]

Seems like Hitch is quite accepting of CASA CEO Pip Spence’s airy fairy “Vertiports,” otherwise known as heliports, and Hitch seems unfazed with CASA’s costly make work idea for a suite of new regulations and standards for the scarcely believable notion of a looming sky full of battery powered helicopters (that’s not as clever as calling them eVertol. BBB as my father used to say about such pretentiousness. Bulls**t baffles brains).

But CASA will be advertising for many consultations involving ’stakeholders’ (especially numerous bureaucrats) for a few years; and employing vertical flight experts and ‘vertuous’ consultants (some ex CASA), it’s an ill wind that brings no good to anyone.

“Stakeholders”. = drive another stake through the heart of General Aviation.

Time will tell how you run a fleet of electric helicopters as taxis (pray not gov. subsided) that cannot sit you down where you want to go, that have to sit idle half the day being recharged, and make money for investors. Otherwise let’s imagine flying around in sometimes fiercely turbulent conditions around city buildings, not on your Nellie. The first one to crash down onto Swanston Street will make headlines.

(And what a bother, we’d better start taking down all those dangerous powerlines everywhere, but that’s probably no big deal because there’s likely not enough power to go around anyway)