Autonomous planes are going to replace pilots
11-25-2020, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by The Dominican
Wrong! designated pilot will be there for the same reason as to why a designated pilot will always be in a cockpit of an airliner. The "What if"
11-25-2020, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by The Dominican
Wrong! designated pilot will be there for the same reason as to why a designated pilot will always be in a cockpit of an airliner. The "What if"
11-25-2020, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Adlerdriver
Is English not your first language? I’m not arguing with you about why the pilot would be on board. Your statement just made no sense. A manned flight by definition has a pilot on board. So saying that the first manned flight will have a pilot on board is redundant. That’s all.
11-28-2020, 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Boxhound
I wouldn't be too worried--especially since Boeing is/was crashing new Max9's WITH pilots onboard. No way in HE!! you'd catch me and my family sitting in the back of one.
11-28-2020, 04:04 PM
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-t...-idUSKBN288053
Tesla releasing "Full Self Driving" software update*.
*Fine print: Requires an "expert, careful, fully attentive" human driver.
#marketinghype
Tesla releasing "Full Self Driving" software update*.
*Fine print: Requires an "expert, careful, fully attentive" human driver.
#marketinghype
11-30-2020, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Adlerdriver
Boeing was crashing them?
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11-30-2020, 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Boxhound
Yep-- maybe you've not been keeping up with current events. It seems that BOEING paid some foreign bad actors to do some sophisticated programming on a vital part and it didn't work out too good for a few hundred people or so.
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12-01-2020, 04:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Adlerdriver
Yeah, I know what happened. The pilots crashed when they didn’t properly deal with a runaway stab trim event and two of them locked the throttles in t/o power and tried to deal with the problem at or over the barber pole.
Thats what the news always says--so it must be true right?
12-01-2020, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Boxhound
Bad enough to ground an entire fleet, cost Boeing BILLIONS. I think it went a little deeper than pilot error, but, isn't that ALWAYS the fallback/default position--especially when the involved crews are dead?
Thats what the news always says--so it must be true right?
Thats what the news always says--so it must be true right?
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