6. Safety

How safe would a hoverbike be? Because of weight limitations, flying motorcycles would have little safety structure (though the safety cage of the 20-minute Jetson One is impressive). Hovering is probably about as safe as riding a motorcycle, which is to say, not very. And flying a fully certificated plane piloted by a fully certificated pilot is about as safe or unsafe as riding a motorcycle . Ultralight safety is largely unknown because of the unregulated nature of the activity, but it is likely many times less safe than flying a regulated small plane. And an important thing to remember is that once you get up to 100 feet off the ground or so, crashes are often catastrophic and fatal.