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by notatoad 1699 days ago
> Start and Land anywhere you want. Make your garden or terrace your private airport

I assume this is wildly illegal in most jurisdictions?

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In the US, you can fly most places and land most places (with permission of the owner) with helicopters, with only general (e.g., must pose no hazard to people and property) rules instead of specific restrictions (outside of controls to keep them out of, e.g., airplane traffic patterns around airports.)

But I can see something like this being available in numbers being the catalyst for that changing fast...

Not especially.

No different than a helicopter.

Hell, plenty of farmers that have a Piper Cub or similar and operate off their acreage.

From what I gather, this is considered an ultralight class airplane. These do not require license or certification, at least in the US.
But, IIRC, they also aren't legal to fly over heavily populated areas...