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Someone brought up a good point in a past discussion --

Think of how many safety checks and procedures you go through with a plane before you entrust your life to it to not fall out of the sky. Are you really going to be wanting to take it on the road, park it in a garage or on the street, and alternate back and forth the use as a car vs. plane? With all the potential abuse a car gets?

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I think the user stories are like this:

When I am grounded due to weather, I can continue my trip.

When I arrive at my destination, at a small airport in middle of nowhere, I don't have to figure out transportation.

So it's really not about going back and forth, it is about making your plane usable in a few extra cases.

I think this is a good way of looking at it - a plane you can sometimes drive, rather than a car you can sometimes fly.

As an aside, I enjoyed how these people got their gyros to Iceland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmwEbjzLtDo

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