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Old 18th Oct 2019, 07:41
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Ian W :
I would recommend that young children get an initial education in the STEM subjects, "know your enemy" study AI, computing and telecommunications. Understand what computing Cloud services are and play with them (you may not realize it but you and I are using Cloud services now). Do the study at a university that has both STEM, engineering and flying courses there are several scattered around the US from Florida to the Dakotas. Students can graduate with ratings on twins and a 1st degree/masters in a STEM subject. This is the best of both worlds as someone said earlier students with a spread of expertise become far more employable.
That is probably the best advice .

The future pilots will not be hand flying but managing systems in a complex environment . The integration of Big Data and AI will bring new possibilities, and those are not designed for humans to interfere with.
Training for those new jobs will be tough, and the qualities required to follow that training successfully are different of those needed to hand fly.
An interesting , and probably well paid job it will be , but a very different one from the one you currently have , and not much to do with the one we have enjoyed until 25 years ago.
Pittsspecialguy : a final advice based on experience ; (3 kids and 5 grand kids let them choose themselves what they want to be and support them in achieving that., wherever their choice is . If your daughter wants to fly , go for it, do not break her dreams based on other people predictions that may or may not happen..
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