Someone must have seen this coming. A massive increase in the demand for airplanes, a critical shortage of experienced pilots and technology available to completely automate every aspect of flying an airliner. These two accidents are a perfect example of a problem that is only going to get worse. You can’t make better pilots by putting them in airplanes that fly themselves until the day they don’t, then expecting them to fly it out of the fire. The days of good hands and feet flying are never coming back, and this is not news to those who make the software. The sooner we give up and turn it all over to them the better. You can rest assured they are ready for it, even if the public and the pilots are not. That said, if it was me getting kicked out of the loop they would have to pry my cold dead hands off the controls.
Last edited by ferry pilot; 2nd Apr 2019 at 16:58.