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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]
I can just hear the computer captains announcement now... "Welcome aboard Flt 1234, bound for Chicago... This is Captain Otto and the flight should be a smooth flight, so everyone just sit back and relax, relax, relax..."
No pilot....
I'm not a passenger.
I'm not a passenger.
Pilotless aircraft are coming faster than most people think. Many airlines are already instituting it by substituting “Mission managers” for “Pilots.”
What airlines? Just curious.
My point Jim is that many pilots today don't possess the airmanship and experience levels that most posters here assume are in every airline seat. Many foreign carriers have pilots fully dependent on managing the automation of the aircraft they're on. Even the 1500 hr wonders streaming into US cockpits are suspect. The recent "Delta dump" showed a lack of experienced command airmanship. I just returned from a recurrent training session at FlightSafety and once again heard unbelievable stories of stuff the instructors are seeing more of every day. My time is getting short in the industry and I have loved every minute of it and when the time comes I will have no issues with jumping on a certified fully autonomous aircraft. Removing the cause of 85% of all aviation accidents can't be a bad thing.
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.