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by satisfice 1699 days ago
Maximum pilot weight of 210lbs? I suppose if I were rich enough to buy this I could also get myself a personal trainer.
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Well at 210 lbs you're either tall enough that you probably won't fit in this thing lengthwise or you are in fact overweight and losing a few lbs wouldn't hurt.
You might want to meet some football players/wrestlers/gymnasts etc before you tell someone to lose some pounds, just based on weight alone
Football players/wrestlers/gymnasts aren't taking health advice from strangers on the internet.
Football players, sure, and a bunch of other kinds of athletes ... But aren't gymnasts typically relatively light?
Yes, gymnasts are typically very lean. Source: I used to be one, though I'm not particularly lean anymore sadly.
What are the odds that someone posting on this site falls into those categories?
More common than you might expect!

You do not need to be a professional sports person - keen hobbyists exist and there is definitely a group here that are into power lifting.

I am an avid powerlifter and used to compete in submission grappling. Now I write TypeScript code.
I have this problem with Lotus cars. They “fit like a glove”.
A correctly sized glove I hope!
A very tight fit.
>They “fit like a glove”.

That's the whole point of a Lotus.

Let's just say they are for hands more delicate than mine.
Or both. I’m 6ft6 and 254 lbs
I had to do the conversion to kg which is 95.25kg. My naked weight is 93kg but with clothes/wallet/keys goes up to about 95kg. I guess I will have to wait for the family version to come out.
15 stone for us Brits
Me too. If I got down to 90 - 91kg and 10% body fat I could just about squeeze in but with clothes and my work bag as well? Nope.
They’re limited to 254 pounds empty, and I imagine batteries behind the pilot constitute an appreciable fraction of that weight budget. More pilot weight would probably push your center of gravity too far forward which would put undue strain on the front motors, causing them to fail.

EDIT: CG = center of gravity, for clarity

If you're rich enough, then perhaps fitting into your own flying car is good motivation to hire a personal trainer ;).