Here it comes
02-09-2023 | 04:00 PM
#11
Line Holder
Joined: Feb 2016
Posts: 616
Likes: 0
I'm curious to know how insurance rates will change be when they start reducing the number of crew members. May not make financial sense at first to invest in all this tech, only to get shellacked by your insurer for using it.
02-09-2023 | 04:51 PM
#12
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Sep 2015
Posts: 666
Likes: 0
There’s been work on this in the background for years now. I know someone who does consulting with some big insurance firms for just this topic.
02-09-2023 | 05:45 PM
#14
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 3,201
Likes: 32
From: 4A2FU
02-10-2023 | 03:10 AM
#15
Line Holder
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 989
Likes: 37
Hahahaha, so an article discussing the possibility makes it a done deal? I’ve been reading about autonomous flight for over a decade with countless coworkers promising its imminent arrival. Nothing yet. Then I see the entire US system shut down due to a minor error in the FAA notam system. So color me not worried in the least over these pie in the sky ideas.
In the 121 world, single pilot ops during cruise would actually be kind of nice though. Wouldn’t mind getting a nap during flight. Still need 2…
02-10-2023 | 05:56 AM
#16
Thread Starter
VHR-very happily retired
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,437
Likes: 0
From: Retired
Hahahaha, so an article discussing the possibility makes it a done deal? I’ve been reading about autonomous flight for over a decade with countless coworkers promising its imminent arrival. Nothing yet. Then I see the entire US system shut down due to a minor error in the FAA notam system. So color me not worried in the least over these pie in the sky ideas.
In the 121 world, single pilot ops during cruise would actually be kind of nice though. Wouldn’t mind getting a nap during flight. Still need 2…
In the 121 world, single pilot ops during cruise would actually be kind of nice though. Wouldn’t mind getting a nap during flight. Still need 2…
02-10-2023 | 09:50 AM
#17
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 307
Likes: 0
Hahahaha, so an article discussing the possibility makes it a done deal? I’ve been reading about autonomous flight for over a decade with countless coworkers promising its imminent arrival. Nothing yet. Then I see the entire US system shut down due to a minor error in the FAA notam system. So color me not worried in the least over these pie in the sky ideas.
In the 121 world, single pilot ops during cruise would actually be kind of nice though. Wouldn’t mind getting a nap during flight. Still need 2…
In the 121 world, single pilot ops during cruise would actually be kind of nice though. Wouldn’t mind getting a nap during flight. Still need 2…
02-10-2023 | 11:20 AM
#19
Line Holder
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 989
Likes: 37
I guess you never of of the Air Force flying no pilot F16's, or Airbus testing a no pilot 757. Here is the states 402s are being tested with no pilot. GA is way ahead also, you can buy a Piper with the ability to to fly itself and land with passengers on board. PIlot has a heart attack? No problem, just push the panic button and the plane looks for the nearest suitable airport checks the weather, sets the squawk, notifies approach and the tower then lands the plane with the passenger only having to shut down the engine. Garmin has produced the avionics for years and a friend of mine has it in her Meridian. Oh it will come in my lifetime and I am 74.
Agree to disagree on the necessary level of automation and technology. That aside, the enormous cost of implementation on both the airlines and ATC create a rather large barrier and we can spend days talking about the needed regulatory change it would take to achieve approval.
Pilotless Boeings and Airbus will not be controlling the sky in your lifetime. Sorry…
02-10-2023 | 04:17 PM
#20
In a land of unicorns
Joined: Apr 2014
Posts: 7,072
Likes: 103
From: Whale FO
I guess you never of of the Air Force flying no pilot F16's, or Airbus testing a no pilot 757. Here is the states 402s are being tested with no pilot. GA is way ahead also, you can buy a Piper with the ability to to fly itself and land with passengers on board. PIlot has a heart attack? No problem, just push the panic button and the plane looks for the nearest suitable airport checks the weather, sets the squawk, notifies approach and the tower then lands the plane with the passenger only having to shut down the engine. Garmin has produced the avionics for years and a friend of mine has it in her Meridian. Oh it will come in my lifetime and I am 74.
