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To: Drew68

They’ll get better over time. Airliners are practically self-flying these days. All the pilot really does is start the engines and taxi them to the runway. They take off, fly to their destination and land all by computer. The pilot just monitors the gauges.

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I watched a short 20 minute Airbus flight on Youtube. The pilots spent most of their time pulling out their laptops and doing paperwork. There were drawers that pulled out just like on a computer desk.


42 posted on 03/22/2018 10:26:38 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Moonman62
I watched a short 20 minute Airbus flight on Youtube. The pilots spent most of their time pulling out their laptops and doing paperwork. There were drawers that pulled out just like on a computer desk.

Not too many ladies pushing their bicycles in the path of a plane at 30,000 feet.

(ducking for cover)

44 posted on 03/22/2018 10:28:26 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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