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Old 7th Feb 2023, 10:42
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Originally Posted by megan
Wonder how a crewless all computer freighter would have handled this? Go pilots. FedEx pilot calm on the radio after the event, situational awareness doesn't get any better, kudos to the crew.
Surely the ai/automation would have coordinated directly with the intruder aircrafts ai/automation and negotiated a better solution when it calculated the risk of collision was too great.

Im not for this technology yet as obviously it needs decades of work, but it’s foolish to pretend there aren’t solutions (and indeed better solutions) to this airprox using automation.
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