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Originally Posted by Route66
Automation in cargo aircraft are being tested now. It will come this way sooner or later but it will come.
The Chief Software Officer of the USAF recently resigned citing the inability of the USAF to place good, secure and reliable IT systems into place.
That's the guy with likely the biggest budget and most autonomy in the uniformed services for IT as a service systems.
But the FAA is going to secure these autonomous IT systems with a bunch of flying missiles rolling around.
I don't doubt you COULD automate a flight deck under extraordinarily permissive conditions. The question is if you SHOULD.