Originally Posted by
rickair7777
That's what I've said all along. Single pilot airliners need FULL certifiable redundancy for zero pilot ops since incapacitation happens several times each year in the US alone.
They might well need to fly a fully automated airliner with one or two safety pilots for a very long time before turning them loose... especially if they use any sort of non-deterministic AI.
This is Airbus's approach, similar to the Garmin one in their new avionics suite for the Cirrus jet:
"As you reduce the number of pilots in the loop it means that in case of failure you need to implement some kind of recovery scenario. So either you install some form of intelligence facility onto the aircraft where, when you press a button, the aircraft can self-navigate the aircraft safely to an airport alone — or, we design and develop a solution where you can take over control from the ground. In Clean Sky, we are concentrating our effort on the 1st part." says Clean Sky's Dubois.
https://www.cleansky.eu/european-avi...enger-aircraft
The A350 will auto descend on autopilot if it detects a cabin depressurization.
https://www.aerospacetestinginternat...-a350-xwb.html