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Airbus Conducts Successful Tests in Pilotless Flights
The future is here! After decades of autonomous airplanes being nothing but talk, Airbus has confirmed a test aircraft took off automatically at Toulouse-Blagnac airport in France last December, along with a series of successful tests on autopilot. (www.msn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
It’s been proven over and over again, that the pilot assume’s control of the machine when it breaks. However, the exception to the rule is when the pilots don’t understand the systems? It might be interesting to note that a completely autonomous aircraft will just fly itself into the ground if it senses a flight condition that does not exist? The hard part is trying to program reasoning into a machine....A.I. is near but not here, yet!
I agree Highflyer. It's the "yet" part of your last sentence that this squawk addresses. It's coming and all large aircraft and most small aircraft manufacturers are working on it. I'm sure that as multiple fail down ways to control an aircraft are built into the system and it's not just handed to a pilot that may or may not know what to do, the air transportation system will be safer. I don't think they will ever find a way to do away with cabin attendants so having attendants with piloting and automation override skills may become important.
Ok. Properly programmed computers can fly more consistently than a human. BUT, when electronics go haywire only a human can intercede to reboot, flip breakers, or manually fly if need be.
Aside from that, I want a human in the cockpit who shares, relatively equally with pax, the outcome of the flight.
Aside from that, I want a human in the cockpit who shares, relatively equally with pax, the outcome of the flight.
I am a Certified Avionics Tech who would work on and with these systems.... Point and Simple... "I WOULD NEVER FLY ON ONE OF THEM!...." -Things break and do things that are not expected... that is why people troubleshoot them and not computers!
i too pass on autonomous flight as a passenger, and i too find it hard to believe that 70% of 22k travelers feel ready to do this. i see people freaking out at the onset of turbulence all the time, suggesting that 15,400 out of 22k have no fear of flying in a tube without pilots and at the mercy of someone on the ground who might be on his coffee break or otherwise distracted seems unrealistic.
Not excited about this at all. I'm pass on non-human flights, thank you.