Originally Posted by
baseball3792
pilotless planes won’t happen until self-driving cars are normalized. People won’t trust them. It’s a long way off,
single pilot operations are also a long way off. The aircraft has to be fully capable of flying itself, without any threat of hacks/external interference and able to deal with any emergency.
eMCO could happen much sooner, but most CBAs require augmentation on long flights regardless of federal regulation.
I see this as an eventual threat, but I certainly don’t see it as a threat 4 years from now.
Don’t we kinda have to play ball to get this into practice. Don’t most major airlines have minimum crew requirement written into their PWAs? Is that really something pilot groups would sell? And the main issue with fully automated aircraft is that every plane in the sky would have to be fully automated for it to work. This is a big reason fully autonomous cars are not full proof. Too many human variables out there. Basically all airspace would have to be banned to manned flight. Just because there’s a possibility that theses types of aircraft are feasible in this timeline, the timeline to replace every aircraft in use today would be much longer wouldn’t it?