Originally Posted by
ArcherDvr
I know this might be a stretch but should they ever get authorization to fly single pilot, we're screwed. Don't think we'll see that in the next 20 years but I've run into pilots that think otherwise.
The technology is developing rapidly, but still not up to Part 121 standards. The cargo pilots are the most vulnerable since most people don't care if a planeload of boxes goes down in the Pacific.
My best guess is that we'll eventually see a third pilot again in the cockpit, but it will be a robotic system. After a decade or so, the second human pilot will be redundant and eliminated. After that, maybe even the first human pilot will go too or simply replaced with a software engineer.
The cost and weight of such a system would be too much for small aircraft, but large international airliners would be perfect for it.