Originally Posted by
twistedenginestarter
The whole point.....
Are you saying that if the pilots weren't there, those two aircraft wouldn't have crashed?
The thread wasn't about the Max though, there's already one on that.
Flight crew, pilots, airmen or whatever you call them, doesn't really matter.... it's just something people has always been doing, changing names of positions to make it sound more "fancy"....
And yes, I believe were closing in on the date where both pilots and controllers are made redundant. They are certainly investing A LOT of money in "developing" everyone out into unemployment. Where technically we could save A LOT of money by reducing the development teams instead.