Another thread on this...

To the original poster: my dad tried to scare me away from becoming a pilot 16-18 years ago by stating that pilots will be obsolete in a decade. He is a very smart engineer at GE. Clearly he was wrong. Engineers always "study" things but that doesn't mean anything.

The "world's greatest Air Force" cannot even operate RPAs without constantly crashing them, losing them to Iran you name it. It won't happen anytime soon for a plane carrying 200+ lives.

Go be a pilot! You won't regret it!!