Originally Posted by
Sam York
Like I've said before, just because the pilot(s) aren't in the cockpit doesn't mean they are out of the loop. You'll still need pilots somewhere. I for one would be interested in converting a room in my house to a remote cockpit office.
I could fly a morning shift from home then head over to my hangar (1 mile from my house), pull out the bug smasher and fly to lunch. I don't need to go to the big airport and deal with that crap anymore. Sleep in my own bed, hell yeah.
And, of course, the satellite time and bandwidth to operate these things transocean is just going to be so much cheaper than paying pilots.