Again, These are not my words but the opinions of global leaders in aviation.

Bill Voss, the president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation made the following comments:

"In modern aviation, these planes almost fly themselves. Voss said that on any given flight, pilots are manually flying the plane for only three minutes -- one minute and 30 seconds each for take-off and landing."

"We moving towards automated operations where the pilot isn't even permitted to fly,"

Another note worthy comment.

"Airbus is proud of the fact, they like to say that their plane is 'pilot-proof,'" said aviation lawyer James Healy Pratt.

Write them a nasty letter. The monorail in Seattle was made in the early 1960's. It still needs an operator however the underground subway at Seatac was built in the 1970's and it does not.

With every advance in automation safety improves. It is inevitable that automation will take complete control and pilots will be the back up system. We are almost there now.

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