Pilotless Airliner - They're looking at it again!

[luckytohaveajob]

Public perception

What does public perception have to do with cargo?

Many posts talk about the public not accepting this in a pax service. Who cares. I said CARGO. Cargo planes do not meet pax requirements. Cargo planes crash in cities throughout the world and maybe make the last page of the paper.

The public could careless about automated aircraft. The public supports flying automated aircraft along the Mexican border.

The public will support anything presented as long as it keeps the prices at WAL MART at current levels. And robot aircraft taking off from China landing at west coast airports bring more cheap imports will be supported in a heartbeat by the public, the government, business, etc.

 

[JohnnyP]

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I worked with Predator for three years. If you want to kill this idea quickly, all you have to do is let the public know just how many times Predator went Lost Link, or how many times the system just failed or how many times the racks locked up. You'll see just how quickly this thing will die.

I fly into Kandahar quite often, i see the drones there on a regular basis. I coulda sworn I saw them armed nowadays. Fuel or weapons?

And, no one is going to buckle their seat belt on a pilotless 737, not for a very long time. Think back to the days where every household was going to have a flying car. Still waiting.........

 

[YourPilotFriend]

The ONLY way you are gonna get people to fly around in these dang pilotless birds is give them no choice or pay them.

Then again there ARE some pilotless planes capable of taking passengers flying all over the US right now...

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/2156137.html

Bashing pinnacle never gets old.

 

[airborn]

Bashing pinnacle never gets old.

Bashing grave pilot decisions should never get old. Pinnacle has a little but not everything to do with this accident.

 

[AC560]

Hey AC560... since you think this will be an easy leap, have you ever flown an airliner or are you just another sci-fi geek speaking about a process you don't understand?

No I am the flying public and honestly judging by some of the idiots on this board I would feel safer with a computer then some you.

 

[Phaedrus]

Just read that report....that chain was looooooong.

 

[JimNtexas]

I heard Burt Rutan speak on this once. He said that if U-2s had the same landing accident rate as modern UAVs the fleet would have lasted about five years, not 30+.

I actually worked on UAV landing software for a short time. I think we're looking out 20 years before UAVs can fly safely in the civil airspace system on an equal bases with piloted airplanes, and 40 years until they are proven enough to carry passengers.

We just don't know how to write software good enough to replace a human pilot in civil operations.

 

[brownie]

these airbus idiots can't even bult a a380 with 2 pilots on it without other company's cancelling on them let alone building an airplane without pilots

 

[Marko Ramius]

Not to worry

these airbus idiots can't even bult a a380 with 2 pilots on it without other company's cancelling on them let alone building an airplane without pilots

You can bet Boeing and others are working on it as well.

 

[RefugePilot]

I thought the cockpit of the future was going to have a dog and a pilot for crew.