Re: Pilotless A/C
in military aviation i'm certain that the unmanned aircrafts will be a very big part of the picture but in civil aviation there's no way
if people hesitate flying just because an aircraft has props instead of jet engines i doubt they will fly in an aircraft conveyed by computers
and if i recall it correctly there was a test with an unmanned A320 or something, the famous clip on the net where it decends after a touch and go and flies touching tree-tops before crashing
also what if someone decides to shut down the GPS system? what if the analogue instruments get malfunctioned and starts feeding bad data to the computer and things go bad, what if someone jams signals when the aircraft is on a short final? there are no pilots onboard to visually discern the real runway from the jammed frequency, radar altimeters can be jammed easily and barometers break
i don't see a future in unmanned civil aviation within a century