IATA Calls for Raising Pilot Age Limit to 67
09-30-2025 | 12:15 PM
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You can scoff if you want. Your prerogative. Kinda like buying stock options....it's the timing of the bet that's important.
20 years from now when FSD cars are the norm not the exception, military/cargo aircraft are flying automatously , and the public has embraced the technology....?
As long as humans keep effing flying ops up killing people, and the general public understands that planes have had to "fly themselves" in the most demanding weather for years and years and years....they might(will?) change their tune. Featherbedding will be the only stop-gap.
20 years from now when FSD cars are the norm not the exception, military/cargo aircraft are flying automatously , and the public has embraced the technology....?
As long as humans keep effing flying ops up killing people, and the general public understands that planes have had to "fly themselves" in the most demanding weather for years and years and years....they might(will?) change their tune. Featherbedding will be the only stop-gap.
09-30-2025 | 12:37 PM
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Along the lines of this thread drift, who other than UA and DL have CBAs that codify multi-pilot operations?
09-30-2025 | 12:56 PM
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You can scoff if you want. Your prerogative. Kinda like buying stock options....it's the timing of the bet that's important.
20 years from now when FSD cars are the norm not the exception, military/cargo aircraft are flying automatously , and the public has embraced the technology....?
As long as humans keep effing flying ops up killing people, and the general public understands that planes have had to "fly themselves" in the most demanding weather for years and years and years....they might(will?) change their tune. Featherbedding will be the only stop-gap.
20 years from now when FSD cars are the norm not the exception, military/cargo aircraft are flying automatously , and the public has embraced the technology....?
As long as humans keep effing flying ops up killing people, and the general public understands that planes have had to "fly themselves" in the most demanding weather for years and years and years....they might(will?) change their tune. Featherbedding will be the only stop-gap.
09-30-2025 | 01:06 PM
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not to mention who’s gonna wake them up enroute.
09-30-2025 | 01:11 PM
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having flown with many of the over 60 crowd it's pretty much already single pilot.
09-30-2025 | 01:12 PM
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You can scoff if you want. Your prerogative. Kinda like buying stock options....it's the timing of the bet that's important.
20 years from now when FSD cars are the norm not the exception, military/cargo aircraft are flying automatously , and the public has embraced the technology....?
As long as humans keep effing flying ops up killing people, and the general public understands that planes have had to "fly themselves" in the most demanding weather for years and years and years....they might(will?) change their tune. Featherbedding will be the only stop-gap.
20 years from now when FSD cars are the norm not the exception, military/cargo aircraft are flying automatously , and the public has embraced the technology....?
As long as humans keep effing flying ops up killing people, and the general public understands that planes have had to "fly themselves" in the most demanding weather for years and years and years....they might(will?) change their tune. Featherbedding will be the only stop-gap.
the military can’t keep preds from going lost link, they won’t be flying unmanned cargo in the NAS anytime soon. Not to mention Until there is such thing as an un-hackable system (will never exist) no one is getting on a passenger airliner that doesn’t have a human at the controls.
09-30-2025 | 03:00 PM
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We're talking about the next 50 years, the career of a 20 year old sitting in flight school today. That is a very long time.
09-30-2025 | 03:05 PM
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a self driving car is one thing, a plane full of people is completely and will always be completely different.
the military can’t keep preds from going lost link, they won’t be flying unmanned cargo in the NAS anytime soon. Not to mention Until there is such thing as an un-hackable system (will never exist) no one is getting on a passenger airliner that doesn’t have a human at the controls.
the military can’t keep preds from going lost link, they won’t be flying unmanned cargo in the NAS anytime soon. Not to mention Until there is such thing as an un-hackable system (will never exist) no one is getting on a passenger airliner that doesn’t have a human at the controls.
I predict the procedure to actually take control of it will look something like the nuclear launch authentication protocol in Crimson Tide.
The canary in the coal mine will be ATC. Once they automate that and develop a secure communication protocol for it then the table is set.
09-30-2025 | 06:05 PM
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