FDX - How Robots Will Transform FEDEX
10-17-2017 | 10:18 AM
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Not to stir any pot or troll anything- but trying to decide between a pax legacy and FDX. I want to go to FDX, but the one thing that causes anxiety is that planes can lose business to drones. I have 30 years left - am I just stressing over nothing, or is that something younger Fedex guy's think about?
10-17-2017 | 10:34 AM
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Not to stir any pot or troll anything- but trying to decide between a pax legacy and FDX. I want to go to FDX, but the one thing that causes anxiety is that planes can lose business to drones. I have 30 years left - am I just stressing over nothing, or is that something younger Fedex guy's think about?
FedEx can't even commit to upgrading the cockpits of their 25-year old A300s to fully comply with NextGen and ADS-B requirements. What makes you think they're going to suddenly hop on the train to buy technology that doesn't even exist yet, which relies on an information and tech infrastructure that doesn't exist yet, and which costs far more than just paying a pilot to fly the thing?
It will come eventually...when the cost is right...and that's not likely to happen in the career span of anyone on the seniority list.
10-17-2017 | 11:58 AM
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Not to stir any pot or troll anything- but trying to decide between a pax legacy and FDX. I want to go to FDX, but the one thing that causes anxiety is that planes can lose business to drones. I have 30 years left - am I just stressing over nothing, or is that something younger Fedex guy's think about?
If it happens at the pax carries it’ll happen at the cargo places and vice versa. I wouldn’t lose sleep over it.
10-17-2017 | 03:10 PM
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Not to stir any pot or troll anything- but trying to decide between a pax legacy and FDX. I want to go to FDX, but the one thing that causes anxiety is that planes can lose business to drones. I have 30 years left - am I just stressing over nothing, or is that something younger Fedex guy's think about?
10-17-2017 | 09:02 PM
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Not to stir any pot or troll anything- but trying to decide between a pax legacy and FDX. I want to go to FDX, but the one thing that causes anxiety is that planes can lose business to drones. I have 30 years left - am I just stressing over nothing, or is that something younger Fedex guy's think about?
Less that a decade for single pilot ops would be my guess. Will we see fully pilot-less? I'd think that is farther away but not due to any technology issues. Once self driving cars/trucks/etc are the norm, the public will not care if anyone is at the controls of the plane.
10-18-2017 | 09:30 AM
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Okay. 10 years(or less 
) from now........Explain to me what happens when that single pilot blows a ventricle and checks out at FL350.
Specifically:
First.... What aircraft will he be flying?
What company will have designed, financed and built it?
What happens with that now pilot-less aerospace vehicle at FL350?
) from now........Explain to me what happens when that single pilot blows a ventricle and checks out at FL350. Specifically:
First.... What aircraft will he be flying?
What company will have designed, financed and built it?
What happens with that now pilot-less aerospace vehicle at FL350?
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