Rockwell Collins Lead Research Company In Single-Pilot Study
The Cedar Rapids (IA) Gazette (3/1) reported Rockwell Collins has been named by NASA Ames as the lead research company for its single-pilot operation study. John Borghese, vice president and director of Rockwell Collins’s Advanced Technology Center, explained that “a co-pilot on the ground rated for the type of aircraft involved would be linked to the plane and assist pilots during” busiest periods. Borghese also said, “We need the involvement of a lot of stakeholders — the airlines, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Air Line Pilots Association and the air traffic controllers.” He added, “This is really research and not product development. We don’t know how this is going to come out.”