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Old 28th May 2004, 00:04
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cortilla
 
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Automated Aircraft

Not exactly sure to post this one, but here goes. I'm at uni now, and one of lecturers (a former RAF engineer) is completely anti pilots and thinks the only reason they are on a flight deck is to drink coffee. The best thing we should do is just sit there and not touch anything. He believes that in a few years time (even though the technology is here now) all commercial jets will be completely computer operated with no pilot whatsoever.

I always try to rebut him by things like every single UAV has crashed, and pax wouldn't be confident to sit with only a puter there. etc. etc.

1) how do you feel about that??
2)how can i really rebut his statements before the summer hols start (after he's marked my exam paper of course) so he can sit and fume during what should be an otherwise great summer.

Thanks for your two pence worth

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