After all, commercial jets have had very advanced autopilots for years, and they no longer have manual controls or pilots - oh wait....
I was thinking about that in the 1980’s. With all the talk of Category III (don’t know what it is these days) very few seemed to actually trust it to land the plane. Of course I’m sure being a commercial airline pilot, most the joy is actually flying.
Pukin’ Dog used to say that just monitoring the FMS on the 777 (going over the Atlantic IIRC) was extremely boring. I can believe it. One particular gig I had was a 12-hour shift of monitoring servers on 3 screens - BION, the days when nothing went wrong were the worst, because you had nothing to do. You’d get through 8 hours of boredom and you still had basically 1/2 day of work to go. The days you were busy solving problems, the 12 hours went pretty fast.
Any commercial pilots out there?