Originally Posted by
JohnnyBekkestad
I honestly don't think we will ever see single pilot. Perhaps, NO pilot at all. But never a single pilot. Specially as things are developing with the latest Air China crash. Or how many crashes that have been blamed on a single pilot locking out the other pilot.
I agree that will (for those reasons) will never have a single pilot.
But I also don’t think we will ever have no pilot (ground based) aka UAS either. With no pilot, you need a ground based link, any link can be hacked and plane flown into building.
Flying boxes or pax. It’s not a safety of normal flight issue, it’s a potential to do great damage if hacked into issue.
The only time you are going to see a no pilot is when it is programmed at the gate, verified, closed out (i.e. impossible to change) and is then released to next gate with probably 3-5 alternates since no outside influences could affect its algorithm for last min changes. And that’s pretty far away technology.
Or maybe a ground based link that gets terminated below 10k’. So it has to revert to on board programming or climb to 10k to ‘ask’ for advice or which preprogrammed alt you think it should go to. But below 10k it can’t be hacked or commanded to fly into a building.