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Old 09-16-2018, 07:04 PM
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MaydayMark
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Last month I attended ALPA's Air Safety Symposium.

One of the Guest Speakers (she had a Ph.D) was one of the FAA's "experts" on artificial intelligence and cockpit design. She doesn't think single pilot ops will happen in our lifetime!*?

She says there are 5 levels of AI. She says that after years of working on the problem that the auto manufactures don't think they'll be able to get to the 3rd level.

It's her feeling that the (unnamed) folks suggesting such an idea just don't understand what pilots do for a living. If your "single pilot" has any sort of a problem (laser?) that you become a UAV!

I don't think I'd let single pilot ops scare me away from FedEx. That said ... it would be nice not to have to commute to either work of the Reserves.

Good luck.

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