Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
My whole point is not to make anyone feel bad but to point out that changes in hiring practices, advances in automation and increased standardization is making it so that most anyone can fly an airliner if they want to.
That is an argument? No doubt, the guys coming out of DC-3s made the same argument when they did away with the tailwheel, the AN beacons and put in autopilots.
Today automation has supplanted skill and standardization has taken the place of leadership and self reliance.
Your opinion is one thing. Fact and research say otherwise.
Airlines have learned that the latest generation of computer wiz kids can quickly figure out the automation and can effectively get by without having any real natural pilot ability or experience.
I would enjoy reading those studies and findings. Sources?
They do not need to hire pilots anymore. Eventually technology will advance so that the pilot in command can manage several flights from a command center on the ground while one or two back up pilots sit with arms folded in the plane watching as the flight unfolds.
Skyhigh
And maybe they will do as well monitoring as at Bhopol, 3 Mile Island and of course, NW188.