Posted on 12/11/2022 10:22:14 AM PST by DFG
Don’t call me Shirley.
Excellent point.
'Do we have any jihadi's on board carrying a small amount of C-4? Our pilot isn't responding'
LOL! First time I heard that...
Do hundreds of pilot-less demo landings in all sorts of conditions ... maybe still not enough for me. Also, what’s the additional cost for the copilot?
Glad I’ve made the decision to give up flying.
TSA infringes on freedoms and is done by a few employees that probably couldn’t get through a TSA check.
The 5 hour flight left me with severe sciatica/back pain, horrible seats but cute—looked like they belonged in Speed Racers car —never again.
And that single pilot is a new grad of United Airlines diversity program, yay!
*** The airlines have been quietly lobbying that the single-pilot approach would quickly solve the staffing problem caused by the pilot shortage and that technology has vastly improved to allow for safe operation of a single-pilot flight. ***
The pilot shortages were caused by requiring pilots to be vaxxed. Get rid of that, and you’d have two pilots available.
The airlines have been quietly lobbying that the single-pilot approach would quickly solve the staffing problem caused by the pilot shortage and that technology has vastly improved to allow for safe operation of a single-pilot flight.
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You have *got* to be kidding. This is madness.
Even the smallest commercial short-haul flight currently requires two pilots. There is not only the most obvious of safety factors, what happens if the pilot becomes incapacitated; it’s an extremely good idea to have a second set of eyes and a second brain processing the flight situation.
Yeah, remember the other week with the pilot had a “medical episode” and the co-pilot had to land the plane? That probably happens more often than we know. This would be a recipe for disaster.
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...and that situation occurred shortly after takeoff, when seconds count in reaction during the climb-out.
This is the incident you are thinking of.....
American Airlines flight from Chicago to Columbus, OH with 76 people onboard. The pilot died shortly after takeoff at an altitude of 2,000 feet.
The co-pilot climbed, turned the plane around and landed
safely. If the pilot had been the only pilot aboard, the
plane would have crashed.
Technology already makes it possible for planes to takeoff and land by themselves. In the future there will just be a pilot and a dog in the cockpit. The dog’s job will be to bite the pilot if he touches anything.
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That was the early concept of the manned spaceflight program. However astronauts protested being nothing more than “spam in a can”. Good thing too, as flights which move outside the expected boundaries, like Apollo 13, require the instant adaptability of humans.
Full autonomy has been possible with acceptable safety margins for fixed wing aircraft for several years now; I think this new policy is just a reflection of that. The need for a human pilot wanes with each advance in AAI (Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence). This is emerging in the decision space for future military ground and air systems as well... it is likely that in ten years you will see fully autonomous ground and air systems that transport people on a wide scale. There are already countries that have fully autonomous naval vessels that transport cargo.
Clot shot crashes to increase.
Bad move. They need to put more pilots there, not less.
Of course they know what this will do. They want more plane crashes and dead people.
Just make sure the one pilot is a non-White non-binary gender-confused Spanish-speaking furry with a peanut allergy.
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A lack of passengers willing to board flights with one pilot will stop this dead in it’s tracks.
Only a fool would board such a flight.
LOL! :)
I would have thought the purpose of the dog would be to bark and wake the pilot up if any red lights came on and started blinking!
The FAA okay’ed twin engine planes for long distance flights. Two engines and two pilots. Next up - two engines and one pilot. After that.. one engine and one pilot.
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