How long until pilots replaced with UAVs??

[ableone]

I think that fifteen years is a reasonable figure for freight.

Passenger service will probably occur after ten years of trouble free freight ops at the earliest.

It will probably look a lot like the airforce program. You will have a bunch of pilot/dispatchers in a building somewhere. Each operator will be responsible for five or ten flights but should something go wrong you will have two people dedicated to the troubled flight.

 

[skyaddict]

For once the glacial pace at which the FAA approves new technology will help delay this a few decades, I think/hope. But in a 20 year time frame I can see crew requirements getting pruned down, as pilots on long haul flights- and eventually not just freighters- become custodians on crew rest in bunks, not even monitoring systems except when there's a data-comm failure on ARINC.

I'd like to believe we can hold a line in the sand for a minimum of 2 pilots at all times, but I think money will eventually talk it down to 1, and maybe zero on some freighters. On the flip side, if burger-flipping wages gradually become norm for all pilots as trends continue, maybe they'll keep a few of us around.

 

[727C47]

i'm glad i got to freight dog it in the DC-3 , before the silicon chips take over,seriously though, not in our lifetime.