Originally Posted by
Rama
I would think that Monday night after doing a missed, holding and shooting another approach to a missed and then diverting to our alternate, our pax appreciate live pilots in the front. We made it in eventually and no one complained. The general consensus was "glad to make it safely."
We go through the motions in the sim, but forget how much work it really is during real life.
Fair enough, but the same decisions can be made by remote... And most modern airlines have been able to autoland better than their pilots now (my user name CATIII) for decades... the technology is here, it's just a matter of when, not if.
Not to mention, that Russian 737 that went missed and nosedived in due to pilot Vertigo would never have happened.