PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Automated Aircraft
View Single Post
Old 31st May 2004, 08:08
  #27 (permalink)  
Jet II
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: West Country
Posts: 1,271
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I doubt that the first examples will be totally pilot-less, its just that the pilot will be sitting in an office on the ground rather than at the pointy end at 30,000 ft.

So taxying, navigating around weather and making decisions about various faults are not that big a problem.
Jet II is offline