Airbus pitches pilotless jets -- at Le Bourget

[ATC Watcher]

Originally Posted by OPENDOOR

How will that interact with ATC and bandwidth needs?The answer to that is probably here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starli...constellation).

Problems with that is that we are slowly building a single point of failure; the communications with Sats. Signals from Sats are very weak and can easily be jammed or spoofed or hijacked. Relying only on Sats for Navigation/ position , communications , separation ( anti collision) and now autonomous operations is not a very good option, especially in today's world getting more and more dangerous each day.
In le Bourget this week, in various panel discussions, the onus seem to be on terrestrial 5G or even 6G data transfers using clouds based in strange places like the arctic. We need a back up to satellites and think differently.