Originally Posted by Aeirum (Post 2900105)

I don’t understand why this is so hard. They need to make a Falcon 7x RJ. End of story;)

Originally Posted by Rahlifer (Post 2900240)

The technology already exists in high end drones that will automatically follow a pre set flight plan and land in the event of loss of signal from the drone operator. It probably wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to equip airplanes with similar technology for single pilot ops. You’d have some sort of button or control that needs to be pushed or manipulated at regular intervals, if the pilot fails to push the button at the right time, the autonomous aircraft would simply squawk emergency and land at the nearest airport.



I seriously don’t see this happening within the remainder of my flying career, but there’s absolutely no stopping technological advances, no matter how hard we fight it. Once it presents a significant cost savings and is “safe enough”, it will be implemented.

Originally Posted by Rahlifer (Post 2900240)

The technology already exists in high end drones that will automatically follow a pre set flight plan and land in the event of loss of signal from the drone operator. It probably wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to equip airplanes with similar technology for single pilot ops. You’d have some sort of button or control that needs to be pushed or manipulated at regular intervals, if the pilot fails to push the button at the right time, the autonomous aircraft would simply squawk emergency and land at the nearest airport.

I seriously don’t see this happening within the remainder of my flying career, but there’s absolutely no stopping technological advances, no matter how hard we fight it. Once it presents a significant cost savings and is “safe enough”, it will be implemented.

Originally Posted by FMGEC (Post 2900573)

Technology exists- yes.
The success rate of this technology is not at a level that the flying public will accept.
One model of drone right now (the MQ-9) is running at a accident of 4 accidents for every 292,000 hours.
And that one is the most successful drone in operation.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/y...dy-since-2011/

Originally Posted by Flyboy68 (Post 2900889)

As long as regional airports survive, there will be a market for 50-70 seat aircraft.

The mainline system can’t function without regionals feeding passengers to it.

Originally Posted by Rahlifer (Post 2900929)

Southwest, Spirit and Frontier seem to be doing just fine without regional feeders. Not every one-horse town needs to have scheduled air service since 99% of America lives within a two hour drive of a major airport.

Originally Posted by DarkSideMoon (Post 2900934)

Not to mention back in the day those one horse towns got 100+ seat service...

Originally Posted by Rahlifer (Post 2900929)

Southwest, Spirit and Frontier seem to be doing just fine without regional feeders. Not every one-horse town needs to have scheduled air service since 99% of America lives within a two hour drive of a major airport.