Originally Posted by
mainlineAF
The economic incentive really only exists when going from 2 pilots up front to none. Or so I’ve been told.
And you’re still going to need pilots, they’d just not be in the plane, and maybe monitoring a few planes at a time. Another example, RPA’s in the Air Force are not “drones” they are “remotely piloted” and they have not just a pilot but a sensor operator, so what 1 guy does in the F16 is done by 2 people in an RPA. I just don’t see this as a major cost savings, not for a long time at least.