Why I chose FedEx
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Wally F4
Good post -- sorry to hear that change has taken place at FedEx. I'm 23 yr retired AF and at Southwest -- life is good.
On another note....seriously asking your opinion on this.
My take is that NO pilot under the age of 40 should consider FedEx or UPS. Not sure a pilot that is under the age of 40 will make it to completion at FedEx or UPS because whether you believe it or not the drones are coming. Within 20 years the majority of cargo will be flown by remotely piloted drones. The technology is there and the integration within the WorldWide airspace system is slowly happening.
The commercial airline sector will eventually go that way but it is much further off than the air freight industry.
Thoughts... do guys at FedEx discuss this much. Again not a concern in my opinion for the over 40 years old pilot but I would not hang my hat on being able to finish my career at FedEx or UPS if I were a 30 year old new hire.
Cheers and enjoy your remaining great years at FedEx.
Good post -- sorry to hear that change has taken place at FedEx. I'm 23 yr retired AF and at Southwest -- life is good.
On another note....seriously asking your opinion on this.
My take is that NO pilot under the age of 40 should consider FedEx or UPS. Not sure a pilot that is under the age of 40 will make it to completion at FedEx or UPS because whether you believe it or not the drones are coming. Within 20 years the majority of cargo will be flown by remotely piloted drones. The technology is there and the integration within the WorldWide airspace system is slowly happening.
The commercial airline sector will eventually go that way but it is much further off than the air freight industry.
Thoughts... do guys at FedEx discuss this much. Again not a concern in my opinion for the over 40 years old pilot but I would not hang my hat on being able to finish my career at FedEx or UPS if I were a 30 year old new hire.
Cheers and enjoy your remaining great years at FedEx.
#12
Hard to say
Wally F4
Good post -- sorry to hear that change has taken place at FedEx. I'm 23 yr retired AF and at Southwest -- life is good.
On another note....seriously asking your opinion on this.
My take is that NO pilot under the age of 40 should consider FedEx or UPS. Not sure a pilot that is under the age of 40 will make it to completion at FedEx or UPS because whether you believe it or not the drones are coming. Within 20 years the majority of cargo will be flown by remotely piloted drones. The technology is there and the integration within the WorldWide airspace system is slowly happening.
The commercial airline sector will eventually go that way but it is much further off than the air freight industry.
Thoughts... do guys at FedEx discuss this much. Again not a concern in my opinion for the over 40 years old pilot but I would not hang my hat on being able to finish my career at FedEx or UPS if I were a 30 year old new hire.
Cheers and enjoy your remaining great years at FedEx.
Good post -- sorry to hear that change has taken place at FedEx. I'm 23 yr retired AF and at Southwest -- life is good.
On another note....seriously asking your opinion on this.
My take is that NO pilot under the age of 40 should consider FedEx or UPS. Not sure a pilot that is under the age of 40 will make it to completion at FedEx or UPS because whether you believe it or not the drones are coming. Within 20 years the majority of cargo will be flown by remotely piloted drones. The technology is there and the integration within the WorldWide airspace system is slowly happening.
The commercial airline sector will eventually go that way but it is much further off than the air freight industry.
Thoughts... do guys at FedEx discuss this much. Again not a concern in my opinion for the over 40 years old pilot but I would not hang my hat on being able to finish my career at FedEx or UPS if I were a 30 year old new hire.
Cheers and enjoy your remaining great years at FedEx.
Really hard to say what the time line for that will be. Do I think it will happen in our lifetime? Maybe. But I also think it will be a slow transition, and pilots will never completely removed from the cockpit. Just my take. Drones are computers, computers go stupid.
#13
Wally F4
Good post -- sorry to hear that change has taken place at FedEx. I'm 23 yr retired AF and at Southwest -- life is good.
On another note....seriously asking your opinion on this.
My take is that NO pilot under the age of 40 should consider FedEx or UPS. Not sure a pilot that is under the age of 40 will make it to completion at FedEx or UPS because whether you believe it or not the drones are coming. Within 20 years the majority of cargo will be flown by remotely piloted drones. The technology is there and the integration within the WorldWide airspace system is slowly happening.
The commercial airline sector will eventually go that way but it is much further off than the air freight industry.
Thoughts... do guys at FedEx discuss this much. Again not a concern in my opinion for the over 40 years old pilot but I would not hang my hat on being able to finish my career at FedEx or UPS if I were a 30 year old new hire.
Cheers and enjoy your remaining great years at FedEx.
Good post -- sorry to hear that change has taken place at FedEx. I'm 23 yr retired AF and at Southwest -- life is good.
On another note....seriously asking your opinion on this.
My take is that NO pilot under the age of 40 should consider FedEx or UPS. Not sure a pilot that is under the age of 40 will make it to completion at FedEx or UPS because whether you believe it or not the drones are coming. Within 20 years the majority of cargo will be flown by remotely piloted drones. The technology is there and the integration within the WorldWide airspace system is slowly happening.
The commercial airline sector will eventually go that way but it is much further off than the air freight industry.
Thoughts... do guys at FedEx discuss this much. Again not a concern in my opinion for the over 40 years old pilot but I would not hang my hat on being able to finish my career at FedEx or UPS if I were a 30 year old new hire.
Cheers and enjoy your remaining great years at FedEx.
First they need all the technical pieces in place to do it at an acceptable level of safety. That does not exist yet... the DoD doesn't really care if a bunch of prop-job drones crash in the desert. But if people are going to be on or under the plane, that's a whole 'nother ball game.
Then it needs to be cheap enough to make economic sense.
Then they have get the regulatory structure in place.
Then ATC and ground support needs to be adjusted. ATC alone might be $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Then the transition needs to occur, and it will proceed slowly and carefully at first.
#14
Wally F4
Good post -- sorry to hear that change has taken place at FedEx. I'm 23 yr retired AF and at Southwest -- life is good.
On another note....seriously asking your opinion on this.
My take is that NO pilot under the age of 40 should consider FedEx or UPS. Not sure a pilot that is under the age of 40 will make it to completion at FedEx or UPS because whether you believe it or not the drones are coming. Within 20 years the majority of cargo will be flown by remotely piloted drones. The technology is there and the integration within the WorldWide airspace system is slowly happening.
The commercial airline sector will eventually go that way but it is much further off than the air freight industry.
Thoughts... do guys at FedEx discuss this much. Again not a concern in my opinion for the over 40 years old pilot but I would not hang my hat on being able to finish my career at FedEx or UPS if I were a 30 year old new hire.
Cheers and enjoy your remaining great years at FedEx.
Good post -- sorry to hear that change has taken place at FedEx. I'm 23 yr retired AF and at Southwest -- life is good.
On another note....seriously asking your opinion on this.
My take is that NO pilot under the age of 40 should consider FedEx or UPS. Not sure a pilot that is under the age of 40 will make it to completion at FedEx or UPS because whether you believe it or not the drones are coming. Within 20 years the majority of cargo will be flown by remotely piloted drones. The technology is there and the integration within the WorldWide airspace system is slowly happening.
The commercial airline sector will eventually go that way but it is much further off than the air freight industry.
Thoughts... do guys at FedEx discuss this much. Again not a concern in my opinion for the over 40 years old pilot but I would not hang my hat on being able to finish my career at FedEx or UPS if I were a 30 year old new hire.
Cheers and enjoy your remaining great years at FedEx.
Do we talk about it? Yes, we are concerned with the single piloted ops in 25 years, the removal of the RO over 8 to 12. Removing double crew requirement over 12 (only one) etc in shorter term. This is a far more practical reality.
Never mind that FAA will takes decades to get all approved. Never mind many other countries. NEXGEN is a good proof of that reality.
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None of us have a crystal ball, but why are we assuming future disruptive technology will only impact one segment of the industry?
We may likely be replaced someday. However, it will have to be for a better mouse trap. In other words, the new robot will have to be safer, more reliable, and all around better than humans in-order to drive regulatory progress. Furthermore, the technology will have to be more efficient, and economical for the airlines to buy-in.
Why wouldn’t the general public and the passenger carries also want a safer, more efficient, and economical product?
We may likely be replaced someday. However, it will have to be for a better mouse trap. In other words, the new robot will have to be safer, more reliable, and all around better than humans in-order to drive regulatory progress. Furthermore, the technology will have to be more efficient, and economical for the airlines to buy-in.
Why wouldn’t the general public and the passenger carries also want a safer, more efficient, and economical product?
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Wally F4
Good post -- sorry to hear that change has taken place at FedEx. I'm 23 yr retired AF and at Southwest -- life is good.
On another note....seriously asking your opinion on this.
My take is that NO pilot under the age of 40 should consider FedEx or UPS. Not sure a pilot that is under the age of 40 will make it to completion at FedEx or UPS because whether you believe it or not the drones are coming. Within 20 years the majority of cargo will be flown by remotely piloted drones. The technology is there and the integration within the WorldWide airspace system is slowly happening.
The commercial airline sector will eventually go that way but it is much further off than the air freight industry.
Thoughts... do guys at FedEx discuss this much. Again not a concern in my opinion for the over 40 years old pilot but I would not hang my hat on being able to finish my career at FedEx or UPS if I were a 30 year old new hire.
Cheers and enjoy your remaining great years at FedEx.
Good post -- sorry to hear that change has taken place at FedEx. I'm 23 yr retired AF and at Southwest -- life is good.
On another note....seriously asking your opinion on this.
My take is that NO pilot under the age of 40 should consider FedEx or UPS. Not sure a pilot that is under the age of 40 will make it to completion at FedEx or UPS because whether you believe it or not the drones are coming. Within 20 years the majority of cargo will be flown by remotely piloted drones. The technology is there and the integration within the WorldWide airspace system is slowly happening.
The commercial airline sector will eventually go that way but it is much further off than the air freight industry.
Thoughts... do guys at FedEx discuss this much. Again not a concern in my opinion for the over 40 years old pilot but I would not hang my hat on being able to finish my career at FedEx or UPS if I were a 30 year old new hire.
Cheers and enjoy your remaining great years at FedEx.
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