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Old 24th Mar 2010, 12:49
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The situation envisaged is a completely automated aircraft of the future, capable of controlling all movement from departure gate to arrival gate. The single pilot is there to override in the 10E-9 scenario where the computer can't cope. The chance of the pilot having a total incapacitation at the same time as the computer needs his input is infinitesimal - equivalent to both pilots having a simultaneous incapacitation today. (He may, of course, have died from boredom.)
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