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So would you fly on a pilotless plane?

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Post by Red Mon 22 Sep 2014, 13:39

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/are-you-ready-to-fly-on-a-pilotless-plane-20140921-10j70w.html

It could be the way of the future as pilots are a major cost.
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Post by Brass Monkey Mon 22 Sep 2014, 14:00

It's a pretty pilotless at the minute as it is, they do sweet FA for 95% of the time. So yes I would.
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Post by Red Mon 22 Sep 2014, 14:07

Tend to agree about their slack workload for a lot of the time, except for monitoring but there have been incidents where highly skilled pilots saved the day. If you watch those Mayday programs you see that some resourceful aviators have done some remarkable things when the aircraft has been damaged or suffered mechanical failure and there are other problems with the automated systems from time to time. For e.g. a few years ago a Qantas plane's autopilot inexplicably put the machine into a dive and the pilot had to work to correct it. One wouldn't want the computer to go offline while trying to land itself.

Nonetheless the modern day pilot is generally not the skilled crewman he once had to be.
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Post by taipan Mon 22 Sep 2014, 14:11

Red wrote:Tend to agree about their slack workload for a lot of the time, except for monitoring but there have been incidents where highly skilled pilots saved the day. If you watch those Mayday programs you see that some resourceful aviators have done some remarkable things when the aircraft has been damaged or suffered mechanical failure and there are other problems with the automated systems from time to time. For e.g. a few years ago a Qantas plane's autopilot inexplicably put the machine into a dive and the pilot had to work to correct it. One wouldn't want the computer to go offline while trying to land itself.

Nonetheless the modern day pilot is generally not the skilled crewman he once had to be.

They haven't been really flying planes for decades.
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Post by lardbucket Mon 22 Sep 2014, 14:11

I wonder how well a computer copes with volcanic ash cutting out all the engines, or the need to land in the middle of the Hudson when the control tower is still advising a return to the departure port.

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Post by G.Wood Mon 22 Sep 2014, 14:23

Big Merlin wrote:. So will that make it easier or harder for a Mussie to hijack the plane?
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Post by taipan Mon 22 Sep 2014, 14:27

G.Wood wrote:
Big Merlin wrote:. So will that make it easier or harder for a Mussie to hijack the plane?

Not many of them called George.
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Post by Red Mon 22 Sep 2014, 14:31

Some critics have already pointed out that it wouldn't be that difficult for the flight systems to be hacked. Easier to do that than to hijack an aircraft these days.

Also a pilot would surely have a greater vested interest in the plane landing safely than a machine would.
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Post by Henry Mon 22 Sep 2014, 14:45

Axing thousands of pilots jobs (and it's a highly-skilled profession) would go down a treat with the unions.
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Post by G.Wood Mon 22 Sep 2014, 14:46

Red wrote:
Also a pilot would surely have a greater vested interest in the plane landing safely than a machine would.

If it was built under Asimov's Laws the opposite would be the case
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