man this is so far off for commercial aviation... if the technology is so easy, why haven’t the box haulers emptied the flight deck? no passengers to worry about a the lack of a human presence... in an unable to reach airfield scenario, just ditch in an unpopulated area (loss of property only), and it would save them one of their largest expenses (flight crew labor & benefits). The stories that I’ve heard regarding what has gone wrong with global hawk and predator are enough to convince me this is not in my lifetime. technology moves at a rapid pace, but the FAA moves at a snails pace and this is far from a trivial transition... so complex on so many levels.
What sort of stories? I'm interested.
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