The municipality’s planning committee will examine the viability of the idea on the basis of an initiative by the Finns’ council group. The signatory of the initiative sees that a place for the field would be good for the future.
In Pyhäjoki, a council initiative has been made to establish an electric airfield in the municipality.
At Monday’s municipal council meeting, the issue was discussed in a very positive tone. The next step is for the Pyhäjoki Planning Board to see if the idea is feasible. So no real decisions have been taken yet.
In a March council initiative, the True Finns proposed an electric airfield in Pyhäjoki to support tourism and the economy in the surrounding area in the future.
According to the initiative, in 10–15 years, the use of electric airplanes will be so affordable and common in the future that even smaller towns should offer them a charging station. According to the signatories, the planes are the air taxis of the future for short-distance transportation, and that the first commercial electric airplanes can fly distances of about 200 kilometers, carrying up to four people at once.
The signatories of the initiative estimate that electric airplanes will be used in passenger traffic in a few years, as long as the certification of the airplanes has been completed.
– We would already be ready for that. And we wouldn’t have to start thinking later that we would need one, but the area would already be in the plan.
A field intended for electric airplanes would need a runway about a kilometer long and also a 500–1,000-kilowatt power charging facility for the planes.
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