Private Pilot License, Multi Engine, Glider, Commercial Pilot, Instructor, UK and USA tickets. I will take a cab instead of this cross bred flying car. If you have an electrical failure it sure as hell can not auto rotate like a chopper, it has no wings and can not glide. It would be a falling brick.
I have had a total electrical failure in a light single. My engine kept running as its electrical power is from its magnetos. I landed at the nearest airport to cancel my IFR clearance as I had no radios or anything electrical working.
I did not shut down my engine. I bought a Sectional and flew to my destination VFR and took it to the airport shop to be repaired. If said same happened to that “flying brick” it would be a hole in the ground.
“I bought a Sectional and flew to my destination VFR...”
You flew a couch VFR? :-)
Yes, my sentiments exactly, including the relative safety of heli autorotation at least over good terrain. Flying model drones, it is remarkable how fast they drop when a motor burns out. g (acceleration) = G*M/R^2
And very difficult to implement a safety chute on a drone. Plus, at low altitude where they’d often be would do no good anyway.