Capt Pit Bull,
All I pointed out was the truth, the technology has been around for many years, to build an airliner with NO pilots at all. The manufacturers spent a fortune on this technology in order to remove, what they consider the weakest link, the pilot. I am SURE that you and 99.99999% of pilots do an excellent job, however more aircraft have been lost in recent times from pilot error than any other cause, tragic accidents where pilots think they know better than the latest technology. The ONLY reason this has NOT been done, is the manufacturers know the public will not fly in a pilotless airliner. Some manufacturers wanted an Engineer (or 2) on board instead, a computer expert/s with a batch of spare computers, others go along with the old joke, what is the best 2 man crew to have, answer 1 pilot and 1 dog, the pilot is there to feed the dog and the dog is there to bite the pilot IF he touches ANYTHING....
Also things must be different in Europe, but I have been in the Industry for over 38 years, over 33 of those as a LAME, and NEVER EVER in all that time has any pilot signed for my work. Here anyway, the tech log is presented to the crew signed by the LAME. It is obviously normally accepted as is, the Captain does NOT sign for the aircraft after the LAME. IF the Captain is NOT happy with the aircraft he can of course refuse it, but he must raise a defect in the tech log, thus invalidating the previous entry by an LAME.
The FINAL clearance even then though will still be, as always, the LAME, but as I said it must be different in Europe?
Best regards,
"lame"