Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
Yes seeing many many single pilot jet RPT aircraft around the world.
What are you smoking?
We don’t even have MANY automated trains in Australia, or the world and you think pilots will be automated out any time soon…dreaming.
You don't...Yet...But where are the Navigators, Radio Operators, FE's? All "Essential" roles in aviation right up until they weren't. Same as Guards on trains, or the Coey there too. Some jurisdictions still have them, a lot don't. Single-Pilot airliners are not as far away as you would think, after-all what is the
fundamental difference in operating a single-pilot business jet vs a single-pilot certified airliner? In RPT roles, perhaps where the passengers would naturally baulk at it, but freighters? I'd be surprised if they aren't around by the end of the decade, and
certainly by 2040.
You only have to look at Airbus with their demonstrator A350, Garmin with their certified Auto-return system for things like the CirrusJet, or TBM to see the advancements in technology are there to allow it to happen. When regulators will
approve it is the only remaining question...