Microjets Soon To Fly Over Europe
The skies over Europe could soon get a little more congested. Manufacturers such as Cessna and Jet Bird will be releasing a new kind of private jet in the form of the “microjet”. Though these jets are much smaller than your run of the mill commercial jet, they claim to be better for the economy.
At a fraction of the cost of commercial airliners, these microjets will be more affordable for companies needing a quick way to shuttle their clients and staff from one place to another. Many of these jets will make as many as 3 trips per day. The downside to this new type of jet airliner is that they fly at the same altitude as commercial jets, yet their collision-avoidance systems aren’t nearly as sophisticated.
At one point, microjet makers assured Europe’s air traffic control officials, Eurocontrol, that they wouldn’t fly above 28.000. However, that agreement has been squashed by pilots who say that flying at such a low altitude burns up too much fuel, therefore making it to expensive to maintain. Eurocontrol officials are planning to do extensive testing in Budapest, which could lead to stricter regulations on these new little planes.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
hope they can also create or invent jet that are environment friendly.. to think that global warming are already existed in the world and it’s becoming worst as day passes by…