1Taco

What about hackers? No matter how much technology evolves, they always seem to be a step ahead.


Texas Students Hijack a U.S. Government Drone in Midair | Popular Science

Whiplash6

Unions are already preparing for this fight, but when it's Amazon's 500 billion versus ALPA who do you think is really going to win?

AFTrainerGuy

I totally agree with you.

G550Guy

Just like Sully did..... right?



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tomgoodman

"That's right, Officer, the plane just disappeared from radar, somewhere near Faber College. It was carrying two thousand cases of beer."

Whiplash6

Sully waited 10 seconds to make a response and landed on a river.

AFTrainerGuy

We still have a way to go, but look what the X-47b did

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/five-things-you-need-know-about-x-47b-and-coming-era-autonomous-flight

Mark2792

You are forgetting that this would require extensive testing and approval from the FAA, a group that is not known to operate efficiently and quickly.....

TheFly

What's the supply and demand of pilots versus bus drivers? Well there you have it....

742Dash

This is not about remote piloting. There is nothing to be gained by moving the pilots from the cockpit to a shed on the end of a data link when the airplane is already required to have pressurization and environmental control. Not to mention that 2 pilots are only a minuscule amount of weight in a large aircraft.

Notice that not one word has been said to indicate that Boeing's MoM project is considering anything other than a normal 2 man flight deck, and this is an airplane that will be in production into the 2050s. Add a 25 year service life, and the pilots that will retire out of it are just being born.

What we are really talking about is autonomous flight. And while it makes sense for large companies to do a little R&D in it (one never knows, and there might be spinoffs), AI and autonomous flight are just barely entering flight test at the very edges. Thinking today about routine autonomous flight with revenue on board is like Wilbur Wright pondering SST designs in 1903.

And it is a mistake to assume that technology will advance quickly. History shows it advancing in spasms, with periods of rapid advance followed by a dramatic slowing and sometimes even stagnation. Aviation itself being a prime example.