Who is going to land the plane when the vaxxed pilot has a heart attack?
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.
“Is there anyone on board that can fly a plane?”
The hardest part of flying a plane of any complexity is cockpit management and communication demands on the radio. It gets extremely busy at critical phases of flight. The aspect of decision making is the left seat job regardless.
Not only no but hell no.
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.
The pilot shortage is of their own making since they changed the required hours to be a first officer to 1500 vs 300. If the lowered the hours on regionals first officers to say 300 to 500 hours, that would allow more people to get the hours in other than military pilots. Maybe you could to do these for the cargo airlines as well.
The cockpit is locked and no one from outside can get in. So if the pilot is incapable of operating the plane then it won’t matter if there is a plane full of pilots...everyone dies.
And of he has a heart attack?
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.
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.