You also have a lot of FA’s with somewhere around 20 hours towards their private who think they are fully qualified on a 121 jet. They have no idea what they are dealing with and it is extremely dangerous.

Probably need to remove the delay, which defeats the purpose.

You maniac!

"You also have a lot of FA’s with somewhere around 20 hours towards their private who think they are fully qualified on a 121 jet. They have no idea what they are dealing with and it is extremely dangerous"

They aren't even qualified to be FA's. Anything to avoid real work i guess.

computer can surely handle things for 5 minutes

Single pilot is a red herring. I you need one pilot, you need two.

Now, if they ever figure out this AI thing...

Sure. In part 91.

It’s comical how you all are concerned about SP ops in your career when it took my company like 3-5 years to have our EFB approved!!!

When does ANYTHING happen fast when it comes to the federal govt??!

Not to mention the increased insurance rates for SP would far exceed what it costs for an FO

Anybody see the new auto-divert / autolamd system that Garmin is rolling out on new Piper M600s (single engine turboprops) and other airframes? I flew one the other day and we tried it (with prior ATC approval, well outside congested airspace.)

It is amazing. Press one button during cruise flight and it goes into auto-divert mode. It calculates the best airport to divert to, taking into account weather, traffic, and runways. It broadcasts its intentions on the correct frequencies. Then it goes ahead and lands, and stops the airplane on the runway centerline.

That system is operational today in a small $2.8M turboprop. It works far better than I'd imagined. Unfortunately I think we're closer to the days of single-pilot (or no-pilot) 121 operations than most of us would like to believe.