Boeing's next aircraft pilotless
 

This should give pause to any new flight students....you may not have a 30 much less, 20 year career.

Boeing’s next airliner may be designed to fly autonomously, Calhoun said, though it may not operate without pilots from the start. He said that Wisk, a California-based company in which Boeing owns a controlling stake that’s developing a four-seat autonomous electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft intended to serve as an air taxi, is one of the company’s key avenues for developing autonomous flight technology.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyb...h=1768c91b279d

At the rate Boeing develops airplanes, even my grandchildren won’t see this

This might affect the unborn.

Replacing the nearly-absolute redundancy brought by a modern autopilot and two competent human pilots will be significantly more difficult than developing self driving cars. Self driving car development/acceptance appears to be progressing slowly.

MCAS has entered the chat.

Qantas flight 32.

Software can never ever cover every mechanical problem.

There will always be mechanical failures.

Pilot pay is a crumb of the cost of a ticket.

The vast majority of people are afraid to fly.

United flight 232.

If we got every single ask in our current table position, I doubt it would raise a ticket price $10.

Alex I’ll take a plane with a pilot for $1000 please.

And in a car only 1 or 2 people die.

A big joke…. Airplanes have and will fly themselves for many decades to come. But hear me now, believe me later…. Joe Public is not going to board a commercial airline without pilots. I fly a very advanced aircraft, the latest and it requires input all the time, even when coupled up. Lloyds of London will not allow and cover any plane that doesn’t have rated pilots up front full time. Keep dreaming. Tesla can’t even handle remote pilot on 2D much less 3D. Can’t wait for the autonomous “air taxis” to start crashing…. Saudia just ordered 100 autonomous air taxis…. Good luck.

They'll always be a pilot in the cockpit.

Who else are they going to immediately for Boeing design flaws?

Blaming the pilot is Dodging Corporate Responsibility (and lawsuits) 101.

Always has been, always will be.