CNN Money Article on Pilotless Planes...
08-14-2017 | 05:51 AM
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This isn't quite the same as pilotless flights on a day to day basis, but this article from 2006 makes for interesting reading:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...jacked-210869/
Have any of you folks heard about this?
It seems Honeywell has been working on a similar system with Airbus.
https://www.wired.com/2003/08/flying...on-auto-pilot/
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...jacked-210869/
Boeing last week received a US patent for a system that, once activated, removes all control from pilots to automatically return a commercial airliner to a predetermined landing location.
“Once the automatic control system provided by the present invention is initiated, no one on board the air vehicle is capable controlling the flight to the air vehicle, such that it would be useless for anyone to threaten violence in order to gain control the air vehicle.”
It seems Honeywell has been working on a similar system with Airbus.
https://www.wired.com/2003/08/flying...on-auto-pilot/
08-15-2017 | 06:41 AM
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This isn't quite the same as pilotless flights on a day to day basis, but this article from 2006 makes for interesting reading:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...jacked-210869/
Have any of you folks heard about this?
It seems Honeywell has been working on a similar system with Airbus.
https://www.wired.com/2003/08/flying...on-auto-pilot/
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...jacked-210869/
Have any of you folks heard about this?
It seems Honeywell has been working on a similar system with Airbus.
https://www.wired.com/2003/08/flying...on-auto-pilot/
08-15-2017 | 08:43 AM
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I'm a bit late to the party on this thread.
The public will go wherever the cheapest flights are. They'll soon forget about the lack of pilots up front if it saves them a few dollars.
Of course the irony of the CNN article is that pilotless aircraft won't be cheaper. Why are Airbus and Boeing still using a lot of 60s and 70s technology on their aircraft? The answer is that it is prohibitively expensive to get the new technology through the regulators approval processes.
Then there is the issue of liability. Pilotless aircraft are every ambulance chasing lawyer's wet dream. Us pilots are quite handy scapegoats when an aircraft goes down in the ocean, but what if the aircraft is pilotless? Who takes the wrap then? The media and lawyers want a scalp when there is an air crash, so they'll come after airline management or the aircraft manufacturer management.
I think what we are more likely to see is much greater levels of automation, overseen by pilots on ever decreasing wages, and receiving less and less training.
The public will go wherever the cheapest flights are. They'll soon forget about the lack of pilots up front if it saves them a few dollars.
Of course the irony of the CNN article is that pilotless aircraft won't be cheaper. Why are Airbus and Boeing still using a lot of 60s and 70s technology on their aircraft? The answer is that it is prohibitively expensive to get the new technology through the regulators approval processes.
Then there is the issue of liability. Pilotless aircraft are every ambulance chasing lawyer's wet dream. Us pilots are quite handy scapegoats when an aircraft goes down in the ocean, but what if the aircraft is pilotless? Who takes the wrap then? The media and lawyers want a scalp when there is an air crash, so they'll come after airline management or the aircraft manufacturer management.
I think what we are more likely to see is much greater levels of automation, overseen by pilots on ever decreasing wages, and receiving less and less training.
08-16-2017 | 08:23 PM
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What happens when a pilot can't fix the plane and it ends up in a neighborhood instead of a grass field 2 miles away
Answer: people will die
What happens when automated airplanes have 90% fewer accidents than manned airplanes.
Answer: They will dominate the industry.
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