Originally Posted by Cyio

I agree. You will have diehards on here touting how far out this is, but I sadly dont see it. I think Covid was the death nail for delaying this progress as we are the biggest expense short of fuel. Think about the yearly cost savings of halving your pilot group?

Do I see it commercially in 5 years, no, 10 probably not, but certainly in my career, which isnt that much longer. It just isnt that hard to fly an airplane for a computer, hell we do it everyday. Now that ATC has the "texting" option to aircraft we dont even need voice anymore. To get a computer to do what is described above is just not that advanced any longer, hell, we have private pilots we wouldn't trust our family with do this all the time.

Just imagine what 10 more years will look like.