Automation, "computers", You have to go one way or the other guys.
Now is the time to make a choice. You either go fully automatic with triple, quadruple, quintuple redundancy like you do with your flight control systems or you forget it.
It is getting near the time when you guys should let the electronics manage and control all aspects of your jobs. The goal is to get 10-500 people from point A to B without people going from C to D hitting each other.
Yes "flying" is the best thing you can do outside the bedroom and ATC is the greatest video game ever invented. But it is time to let the machines do the work. When you can't see squat as a pilot the machine lands it... When an ATC screws up the machine yells "conflict"
Sorry to offend, but having read posts in here for several years most "disasters" and loss of life has been when man and machine disagreed.
Machine was correct in most cases.
This is meant as a debate point, you guys trust the "machine" as in Autopilot every day, why not go the whole way and trust "machines" in every aspect of getting a plane from A to B.
When you can't land "visual" what do you do?... Use instruments, you trust them?
Last edited by Kiteflyer; 13th Jul 2002 at 07:08.