chflyer wrote:
Not for technical reasons but for purely freedom of flight reasons, both personal and business.
Of course, for 0.01% of the population 
DeeCee57 wrote:
but more about the future and viability of eVTOLs. And those could well spell the end of light GA as we know it.
Why? The vast majority of pilots in light GA in Europe fly because they want to fly. It might be completely shocking, but since the invention of the motor vehicle, a small airplane is economically not the best way to get a 100$ Burger (well, these days more a 300$ coffee…). The emergence of autonomous flying machines doesn’t change anything to the attitude of those who simply like flying.
The use cases of light GA that are purely driven by a ridgid business decision are extremely small – and those are the only part of light GA that might be affected by autonomous flying machines. Yes, it might well be that for bringing urgent goods on an island in the North Sea there will be no longer Cessnas in the not so distant future. But that does not spell the end of light GA.
We already have a buzzing industry of VTOLs – commonly referred to as “helicopters” – and in this segment the innovation of using electric small rotor helicopters in stead of fossil fuel large rotor helicopters will shift some market. But again more like any product innovation rather than “spelling the end” on anything.
And we might also see soon that for special purpose flights – e.g. bringing goods to oil rigs – there will be more pilot less aircraft.
For all others, the basic situation has not changed at all: There are so many good reasons why people are typically not flying from their home to their workplace every day – the cost of helicopter-pilots or the environmental impact of fossil fuel helps are not amongst them
