Pilotless recon drones fair enough, they cant kill anyone except those unlucky enough to be underneath them when windows locks up.
But airliners that carry hundreds off pax need at least one person onboard trained to cancel the spyware popups
If they GD was really keen on cost cutting he could install MS FlightSim on his planes and have some nerdy 14 year old with bad acne can sit and 'play' all the way from MML to HKG for no more than KFC or Maccas would pay
Ive never been able to master the keyboard controls for it, or even been able to bank at a constant rate on it, yet ive seen ppl who know the FMC inside out who cant even do a 1 in 60 or a fuel calculation on the fly in the air
Saves on training i guess
Turbz