Beginning of the end for Regional pilots?

[Dubya]

I have heard that FedEx is actively looking to be flying pilotless aircraft by 2020. I agree that it's further out for pax, but don't expect your grandkids to be able to have a piloting career.

Whatever. You really believe that people will get on a plane with noone at the actual controls ready to deal with whatever happens on the plane?
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[BrickTop]

The capability to design an airline grade airplane to fly without human intervention is VERY possible. What you don't realize in the MASSIVE infrastructure revamp that would have to take place to accommodate the ENTIRE operation. Taxi way guidance systems, terminal parking automation, automated adverse weather operations. There are far to many operational areas that would cost BILLIONS of dollars to automate the air travel process. It will happen I am convinced of that. Just as sci-movies in the early century suggested we would travel to space (And we did) we can be assured that air travel in the future will rule out human element. Not in the next 30 years though. Of course if OBAMA could just write a check........

 

[Dubya]

The capability to design an airline grade airplane to fly without human intervention is VERY possible. What you don't realize in the MASSIVE infrastructure revamp that would have to take place to accommodate the ENTIRE operation. Taxi way guidance systems, terminal parking automation, automated adverse weather operations. There are far to many operational areas that would cost BILLIONS of dollars to automate the air travel process. It will happen I am convinced of that. Just as sci-movies in the early century suggested we would travel to space (And we did) we can be assured that air travel in the future will rule out human element. Not in the next 30 years though. Of course if OBAMA could just write a check........

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[Gobi Gred]

Not gonna happen in my lifetime or my kids lifetime. It seems the more complex with computers airplanes get the more they break. I've said it before, when I can take a nap or read the paper with a fed in the jumpseat, then I'll think its a possibility.

 

[Erlanger]

Didn't Airbus try to design an airplane that didn't include the pilot, sort to speak? Here's an example of that first fully automated airplane. Worked real good, hey? Just listen to the commentary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOhdlj2LKCs&feature=related

 

[Dubya]

Didn't Airbus try to design an airplane that didn't include the pilot, sort to speak? Here's an example of that first fully automated airplane. Worked real good, hey? Just listen to the commentary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOhdlj2LKCs&feature=related

Seriously. Thank you.

I will bet the remainder of my salary for the rest of my career that there will ALWAYS be a human at the controls of the airliners for as long as there are passengers. Boxes, maybe. People, never. Ever.

I'll even throw in my Barry Bonds rookie card.

Ain't gonna happen.


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[Erlanger]

Seriously. Thank you.

I will bet the remainder of my salary for the rest of my career that there will ALWAYS be a human at the controls of the airliners for as long as there are passengers. Boxes, maybe. People, never. Ever.

I'll even throw in my Barry Bonds rookie card.

Ain't gonna happen.


W

Dude, if you read my prior postings, you will see I was probably the first on here to say what you've said. Did you not get the intent of my last post?

 

[threegreen]

Never gonna happen. People want people up front. Plus robots can't make DECISIONS on the fly. Ever get the blue screen of death?

 

[ASA_Aviator]

Seriously. Thank you.

I will bet the remainder of my salary for the rest of my career that there will ALWAYS be a human at the controls of the airliners for as long as there are passengers. Boxes, maybe. People, never. Ever.

I'll even throw in my Barry Bonds rookie card.

Ain't gonna happen.


W

Never. Wow. That's a pretty bold statement. 500 years from now? What about 1000? Why do you want to put yourself in the class of people that question possibilities. If anything, those people have been proven wrong more often than not. The world isn't flat after all.

 

[slackass]

I'll take my chances with a computer rather than pilots! 90 some % of crashes are pilot related.

 

[phr8dawg]

.....so a mildly disgruntled Fed is seen pounding on the shell of the Predator B.......

"Hellooooo, open up NOW! License, medical, photo-ID, now! Helllllooooooo!"

 

[Erlanger]

Pilots will be relegated to simply being a systems manager. I can see it now - you're going to need some sort of computer degree along with your Commercial certificate to get hired. Those ERAU degrees will be worthless.

 

[XJohXJ]

I'd rather have a hungover, tired, wondering how he is going to pay the bills pilot than no pilot. Then again, I'm familiar with the goat rope pilots routinely face. Last time I checked, computer's don't do goat rope.

 

[Dubya]

Dude, if you read my prior postings, you will see I was probably the first on here to say what you've said. Did you not get the intent of my last post?

Yeah! I thanked you. I was being serious. The rest of my post was aimed at the same thing you were aiming at. Sorry to confuse.

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[Kaman]

Advancement in technology led to the elimination of fireman on diesel locomotives. It is only a matter of time until flying as we conduct it today may very well be a thing of the past in as little as one generation.