Originally Posted by
OOfff
We won’t end up going from 2 pilots to 1 to zero. It will be directly from 2 to zero. There’s no advantage to single pilot, especially augmented with a remote system.
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
This may not be far off the mark. You can't go single pilot until the automation can *reliably* handle the 6-8 pilot incapacitations which occur in the US each year. That means full-auto needs to be ready for prime-time before you go single pilot on pax airliners.
Completely agree. I don't think we'll ever see single pilot ops until AI has the same intelligence and can also think like humans. That's a big jump from Siri. The big question is when will that happen? Hopefully it'll be 30+ years down the road (or not in our lifetime). When it does happen, single pilot ops will be the last thing we're worried about... Article below is a 20+ min read but sums up what we could expect from AI in the future.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artif...olution-1.html