Originally Posted by
mik3bravo
True. Commercial aviation insurance law being worked on to reflect this inevitable advance to fully autonomous civilian passenger flights.
It's going to happen whether people like it or not and even if you end up with 1 person in cockpit as back up the aircraft it is planned.
Friend was a FE with BA until they changed it and he old enough to remember Radio officer etc.
It will require a lot of technology changes at airports but that will happen anyway over time.
If Man can send unmanned craft with people to a space station thousands of miles away then London to New York shouldn't be impossible.