#1 2018-07-17 15:36:22
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#2 2018-07-17 20:16:23
How long until they get rid of the first officer completely and just have a pilot handling the plane? More than 90% of airline miles flown are hands-off and nearly all larger jets can be automatically launched and landed, even in bad weather.
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#3 2018-07-18 08:24:17
Most aviation mishaps = pilot error.
Most dumb kids = teacher error.
Most legal malfeasance = lawyer error.
Most investment losses = financial advisor error.
The list is long. AI will eventually course correct.
Prime example: Boeing spent uncounted millions on flight decks designed to mimic flight control feedback in order to make pilots "feel" like they were flying.
Truth be told, everything your intrepid flyboy experiences, take the 777 for instance, is nothing more than a shitload of computer-controlled-monkey-motion-feedback which, coincidentally, occurs beneath the floor, under their seats. Yet, the aircraft has 1940's era yoke and not one pilot actuated control mechanically connected to anything steering the aircraft or controlling the engines.
Bottom line: Aircraft already have the technology/capability to fly themselves an order of magnitude more safely than any self driving car/truck.
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#4 2018-07-18 11:00:15
However until us sheople are completely comfortable with selfdriving-vehicles selfdriving-aircraft are out of the question - so the pilots are here for a while.
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#5 2018-07-18 11:42:20
Emmeran wrote:
However until us sheople are completely comfortable with selfdriving-vehicles selfdriving-aircraft are out of the question - so the pilots are here for a while.
At least until we reactivate space monkeys.
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#6 2018-07-18 14:28:18
GooberMcNutly wrote:
How long until they get rid of the first officer completely and just have a pilot handling the plane? More than 90% of airline miles flown are hands-off and nearly all larger jets can be automatically launched and landed, even in bad weather.
They said the shortage is with regional airlines. i.e. Puddle Jumpers. Even American Airlines flights, say, Chattanooga, TN to Atlanta, GA uses the turboprop planes. Those things fly so low you can practically feel the tree tops brushing the underside of the plane. You need two pilots with their wits about them at all times in case some crop duster gets lost.
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#7 2018-07-21 06:51:51
choad wrote:
Emmeran wrote:
However until us sheople are completely comfortable with selfdriving-vehicles selfdriving-aircraft are out of the question - so the pilots are here for a while.
At least until we reactivate space monkeys.
The future continues to provide an aeronautical niche for our simian cousins. Given the flying public feels safer with a human in the left seat, monkeys-armed with a femur, will occupy the right seat and promptly club the human should he do anything other than sit on his hands.
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#8 2018-07-23 09:10:27
Baywolfe wrote:
GooberMcNutly wrote:
How long until they get rid of the first officer completely and just have a pilot handling the plane? More than 90% of airline miles flown are hands-off and nearly all larger jets can be automatically launched and landed, even in bad weather.
They said the shortage is with regional airlines. i.e. Puddle Jumpers. Even American Airlines flights, say, Chattanooga, TN to Atlanta, GA uses the turboprop planes. Those things fly so low you can practically feel the tree tops brushing the underside of the plane. You need two pilots with their wits about them at all times in case some crop duster gets lost.
Pilots have told me that the one indispensable part of their job that can't be done by the autopilot is taxing around the airport, dodging catering trucks and luggage carts and getting into the right lineup in the staging area, plus pulling up carefully to the gate.
Most of those turboprops still cruise at 15k feet, well above crop dusters and non-pressurized civilian traffic.
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