Ask an operator what limits their expansion and none of them say battery, payload or navigation. They say regulatory approval for flying beyond visual line of sight.
Corridors beat coverage
The companies making money fly repetitive routes — pharmacy to clinic, warehouse to depot — because a fixed corridor is a document you can get approved once.
Community noise objections are the second gate and they are underestimated. Two pilots we followed were suspended by local complaint volume, not by any safety finding.
The hard part of autonomous flight is the permission, not the flight.
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