"Pilot Shortage" - well ?
08-25-2014, 04:02 AM
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There won't ever be single pilot airliners. It'll be 2 pilots or no pilots. A single pilot airliner would have to be designed in a manner where it could function safely should that pilot "fail"... and if it can do that, it doesn't need the pilot there in the first place.
08-25-2014, 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by deltajuliet
Our sim instructor was just discussing the finer points of how autopilot can't maintain course if an engine fails and you're not coordinated.
I'd bet $100 boeing engineers are designing the single-pilot systems right now. That doesn't mean the airplane has to be flown single-pilot, nor does it mean that it's 5 or even 10 years out, but they'd be stupid to not be investing and researching in this area, because that's naturally where it's going to go.
08-25-2014, 04:44 AM
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Originally Posted by encore
There won't ever be single pilot airliners. It'll be 2 pilots or no pilots. A single pilot airliner would have to be designed in a manner where it could function safely should that pilot "fail"... and if it can do that, it doesn't need the pilot there in the first place.
08-25-2014, 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by mike734
Would a pilotless airliner have been able to land on The Hudson? I doubt the programming would have searched for, and found the only flat place to dead stick that jet.
08-25-2014, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by mike734
Would a pilotless airliner have been able to land on The Hudson? I doubt the programming would have searched for, and found the only flat place to dead stick that jet.
08-25-2014, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Mesabah
The software made it back to LGA. Also, I doubt they would have made it to the river if it was IMC. That situation had a lot more luck than it did skill.
When given the delay necessary for the engines to "digest" their victims, none of them made it back to LGA.
08-25-2014, 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
When the test subjects knew it was coming, they were able to make it back. They of course turned back right at bird impact. That was
When given the delay necessary for the engines to "digest" their victims, none of them made it back to LGA.
When given the delay necessary for the engines to "digest" their victims, none of them made it back to LGA.
08-25-2014, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Mesabah
Real emergencies are asses and elbows, I don't think anyone would have made it back, except a computer.
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