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Originally Posted by Thrust Hold (Post 3192136)

Which changed policies for foreign operators. US carriers were already safeguarding against such acts.

They actually changed to rule back to the original rule and now leave it up to the individual airline.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39749803

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.The European Aviation Safety Agency, which was behind the original rule change, relaxed the requirements last year to allow individual airlines to evaluate their own safety needs.

BDL said that its airlines had "independently" reviewed the rules and decided that the two-person rule had no safety benefits - and could actually be more dangerous.

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Originally Posted by Margaritaville (Post 3192234)

I wouldn't be surprised to see them spin AWS off at some point either.

I would. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they spun off Prime. That’s pennies on the sidewalk for Amazon.

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Originally Posted by CardboardCutout (Post 3192149)

It certainly appears to be an intractable problem to me. Gotta have someone on the airplane to control it for reasons of potential jamming/interference/etc. Person on plane must be able to override any external guidance for similar reasons. Can't have one person riding around who can crash the airplane unopposed (remember the old joke about the pilot and the dog...). Therefore two pilots until perhaps onboard AI, and I don't think that's exactly right over the horzion.

I am also no expert.

Yes. I've been saying for years, if you need one pilot you need two pilots. Single pilot is not an option. Now, fully automated might be a thing some day. But that's down the road enough this 40 something isn't worried about it.