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Single-pilot jumbo jets just around the corner
It's official: the industry is working toward an airline flight deck that can safely be operated by a single pilot. And if it's extended long-haul, an augmented crew would be two pilots: one on the flight deck and the other resting. A team led by Thales Avionics, consisting of many other high-profile European companies plus Boeing and Jeppesen from the USA, is working toward an advanced airliner cockpit that can be managed by a single pilot backed up by high quality communications… (www.flightglobal.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
LOL... This is just too crazy... Even if the planes can handle it, I do not think the public is even close to being ready for that. Computers can do a lot, but the airbus pilots in France crash a good number of years ago may be here today if the had done what he commanded vs what the computer thought was best. I want to have 2 pilots up there. What happens when one pilot goes crazy. I remember when an FO locked the captain out of the cockpit because he lost it. What is going to happen when you only have one crew in the cockpit.
The future points to 0 pilots in the cockpit (no one to go crazy). I expect there will always be accidents though fewer of them, however the term "pilot error' someday will become extinct.
Don't ya realise the folks who make the decisions are divine..they don't follow rules...they make them. You not realised this fact yet? Been evident since the year 2000.
That'll make Michael O'Leary happy.
400 passengers, 17 hours of flying, 500million dollar equipment--- One pilot getting paid 40k a year.
=Not Comforting!!!
=Not Comforting!!!
And wait till one of the engine blows, tearing up your hydraulics and wing!
They landed that A380 with how many pilots again???
They landed that A380 with how many pilots again???
Exactly. Everyone remembers UAL232, right? How about the Gimli Glider, or Sully? Someone playing FlightSim on the ground is not going to save those flights.