Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot

Some of us will be here well beyond 2030 so yeah it matters. If it ever gains any traction half of us will be reduced to “remote pilot” probably making a third of the money a first officer makes. Some of us also have kids in Flight school and would like to see them have a full career in the cockpit and not get the axe in their mid 40s with a family to support. I don’t want my tax dollars funding any furtherance of pilotless technology. The airlines and manufactures already work hard enough to eliminate us. We don’t need to fund things that help their cause. And yes right now it will prove it cannot be done right now but the program is indefinite as in forever.

Sure the bill has so good items but none in my mind more important than this. Strike the paragraph and pass the bill. Done.