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Old 06-20-2019, 05:08 AM
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Airbus Says It Has The Technology To Fly Planes With No Pilots, But The Challenge Will Be Convincing People To Get On Them

By Bill Bostock, Business Insider. "Airbus has developed technology to fly passenger jets with no pilots, and is ready to deploy it today, according to one of its top executives. But the company knows that autonomous commercial flight remains a distant prospect because of barriers which are human, rather than technical."
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Old 06-20-2019, 05:22 AM
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It's coming. This probably won't be a viable career for my 5 year old.
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Old 06-20-2019, 05:33 AM
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Envoy. Pilots flow to AA to become flight attendants, because their management hates them so much.

In real life, it would take one demonstration of a theoretical radio-controlled 9/11 to keep this from ever happening.
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Old 06-20-2019, 07:56 AM
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Probably cargo, but after the GPS debacle last week I wouldn’t worry too much about pilotless airplanes.
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Old 06-20-2019, 08:05 AM
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Name one complex computer system that behaves exactly as instructed, I’ll wait.

How will a pilotless plane participate in the ATC system?
What would you in the event of a systems failure?
What about an event like a loss of GPS like the CRJ has been experiencing?

Pilots use to fly planes, more and more they are becoming automation managers, someone is going to continue to have to manage the automation. It’s frequently does weird things and will continue to do so. I’m not worried.

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Why is this in the 9E sub forum?
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Old 06-20-2019, 09:16 AM
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Old 06-20-2019, 06:22 PM
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This isnt happening in any of our lifetimes.
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Old 06-20-2019, 07:41 PM
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God not this again..

Boeing probably said how cool and technologically advanced the MAX would be.....how’s that working out?

As pilots some of you clearly lack common sense.
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Old 06-21-2019, 09:44 AM
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The computers that fly the airplanes don't have to be perfect. They just need to demonstrate a better safety record that human pilots. This will happen eventually but I do think we are a way out from it being career threatening. Not because the technology to do it far fetched, but because there will be a lot of bureaucratic red tape slowing the pace down.

And yeah, cargo would be the first to go and I would bet there will always be someone (not necessarily a pilot) on board that is trained to pull a circuit breaker or force reboot of certain systems and such via instructions from someone on the ground. In passengers service, this would be flight attendants... they're a lot cheaper than we are.
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Old 06-22-2019, 08:38 AM
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Going to have factor in additional weight/cost for chutes when ctrl+alt+del doesn't work.
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