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Old 06-09-2016, 07:51 PM
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Yoda2
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Once you become a pilot you will discover a few things that are scarier than worrying about a computer. In fact you can't really call yourself a pilot until you have an instrument rating and have scared the hell out of yourself at least three times. Even though the technology exists today, it will likely be a ways off as I believe the passengers aren't quite ready to accept that. Following that logic the UPS/FedEx crews would go first. Additionally, yachts and ships have been around much longer than aircraft, and they use navigation and other state of the art equipment similar to aircraft, and still have captains and crew. I would worry about freezing rain long before computers; unless it's going to be a HAL 9000. That would be a different matter... Actually I did see an article the other day about someone pushing the total computer control of cargo ships, yikes! Regardless, it will be ships and cargo planes long before PAX planes, so pretty sure bet you would be safe to press on.

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