Notices
Union Talk For macro-level discussion: legislation, national unions, organizing pilot groups, etc.
For airline-specific discussion, use relevant forum above.

UAS replacing pilots?

Old 03-27-2019, 12:08 PM
  #1  
Line Holder
Thread Starter
 
Joined APC: Feb 2019
Position: Manager of flight operations
Posts: 64
Default UAS replacing pilots?

I was wondering what people’s thaughts on this topic are, and what you think the unions will do when aviation companies attempt to do this? My personal opinion is that it is inevitable in the not to distant future, just unsure how the industry will react to it?

I’m sure it will start in another country with air freight and spread from there.
cfimechanic is offline  
Old 03-27-2019, 03:48 PM
  #2  
Gets Weekends Off
 
Joined APC: Mar 2011
Posts: 1,022
Default

Originally Posted by cfimechanic View Post
I was wondering what people’s thaughts on this topic are, and what you think the unions will do when aviation companies attempt to do this? My personal opinion is that it is inevitable in the not to distant future, just unsure how the industry will react to it?



I’m sure it will start in another country with air freight and spread from there.


Plenty of threads on this.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
4V14T0R is offline  
Old 03-28-2019, 11:38 AM
  #3  
Just Plane Stupid
 
HeavyDriver's Avatar
 
Joined APC: Feb 2006
Position: Captain
Posts: 456
Default

Originally Posted by cfimechanic View Post
I was wondering what people’s thaughts on this topic are, and what you think the unions will do when aviation companies attempt to do this? My personal opinion is that it is inevitable in the not to distant future, just unsure how the industry will react to it?

I’m sure it will start in another country with air freight and spread from there.
Trains aren’t even driverless, so until that happens it won’t be anytime soon.
HeavyDriver is offline  
Old 03-30-2019, 12:52 PM
  #4  
Line Holder
 
Joined APC: Mar 2019
Posts: 54
Default

I have been wondering about this a lot lately. I think we will see some form of it in my lifetime, and on the surface there stands be to a lot of economic incentive for someone to figure out how to do it. My opinion is it will take a long time, and I doubt passenger planes will be pilotless in the next 5 decades. Technology advances at amazing rates though.
Gloriousprofits is offline  
Old 04-19-2019, 12:56 PM
  #5  
Gets Weekends Off
 
Airbum's Avatar
 
Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 652
Default

I can just imagine the size of the IT department trying to keep that them running.
Airbum is offline  
Old 04-20-2019, 06:05 AM
  #6  
On Guard!
 
Meow1215's Avatar
 
Joined APC: Mar 2019
Posts: 1,181
Default

Might gain some traction, then one goes in the dirt and that will be the end.
Meow1215 is offline  
Old 04-26-2019, 03:29 PM
  #7  
Gets Weekends Off
 
Joined APC: Jun 2015
Posts: 115
Default

From an aviation claims perspective, the first time a small automated commuter aircraft like those being developed crashes into a building downtown and plummets to the ground, killing 10s of people, the movement will be set back 10 years at least. Right now a Cessna 172 crash is still an exotic way to die and the media swarms like flies to s&*t. Countless people will post videos on twitter and youtube of the unfolding disaster. Then the lawsuits will roll in and these start ups will shell out big bucks to make it go away. They might be financially robust enough for 5-10 death death settlements, but the optics alone will be a major blow.

Now scale that up to airliner size. Insurers won't insure them, so the risk is 100% on the airline/manufacturer. One crash is bad. But then if there is another? Oh boy, the lawyers will come after them with everything they got, punitive, possibly criminal damages. The MAX issue times 10.
geosync is offline  
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
SpecialTracking
United
158
06-21-2019 03:59 PM
cactiboss
American
114
12-11-2015 07:54 PM
Route66
American
6
04-08-2015 06:38 AM
ERJ135
American
26
02-26-2013 05:54 PM
bgmann
Regional
31
11-19-2011 07:33 PM

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Thread Tools
Search this Thread
Your Privacy Choices