My comment was in reply to the made up statistic of the previous poster.
These old statistics show that almost 10 years ago the loss rate was a long way below the 30% rubbish that Huck claimed. The newest has a class a rate of 32 per 100,000 flight hours.
32 per 100,000 flight hours is faraway from the actual (depicted in the same document) 1 per 100,000 attributed to general and commercial aviation. They do have a long way to run...
I' m curious, does anyone here honestly, all personal feelings and job protectionism aside, believe that airliners will still have pilots on board in the year 2050?
2050...honestly? I really don't care! If it was the discover of some cure to cancer...I would care.
Remember 2001 Space Odyssey? We should have been commercially flying to the moon, but we are already 9 years late...and I still don't care.