You'd probably have the same odds if today an RJ captain keeled over at the controls and a 500hr wannabe had to land it by himself.

 

As much as I like your cynicism. . . insurance companies wouldn't provide coverage to the airlines if they were hiring such individuals.

I can see depression is setting in.

 

Wanna bet!

 

That risk is low...if an RJ was doing a non-precision approach into an uncontrollable field in night IMC, low altitude icing, had a fire and/or engine failure and the 8-cheeseburger-a-day lifer regional CA suffered cardiac arrest from the stress, then you would be in the deep kimchee. I guess a low-timer with less 100 hours in type would ball it up in that kind of situation.

 

Not in the next 50 years...

The military has a pretty good operational safety rate with UAV's...not counting combat losses, they run something like 97-98%. That means that 98% return successfully. To put that into perspective, out of the approx 10,000 daily airline departures in the us, only 200 would end up in smoking holes ON ANY GIVEN DAY! BTW, each hull loss costs about $1Billion when all is said and done. $1B x 200/day x 365...well never mind, we'd use up all of our airplanes in a week or two.

From an engineering perspective, you would have to get something like a 99.99999 (approx) safety rate out of UAV's to achieve airline compatibity. Any engineer knows that the last 1% improvement in statistical reliability is harder than the first 99%, to say nothing of improving 6 or 7 decimal places!


Besides, you would have to have a means for ATC to direct the airplanes in flight...basically you would be creating a ready-made fleet of thousands of gi-normous cruise missiles loitering over the continental US just waiting for the first terrorist @-hole who can hack the system!

Not gonna happen. Save your anxiety for the REAL problems in the airline industry.

 

Go for it troll.

 

Just trying to have a little fun with a thread and blow off some steam.

Thanks for all the trivia though! Being caught up in the bankrupcy process has really taken a toll on all of us here. Sometimes it is just hard to function when your mind is racing thinking about all the possible scenarios and trying to keep all the rumors from driving you MAD.

The real problems like how I have done EVERY possible SUDUKO puzzle already and now end up making paper airplanes out of my Jepp revisions.

 

Bus drivers in NY make $22 per hour and free training.