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Old 8th Aug 2011, 22:47
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stepwilk
 
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Funny, I've been saying this for years: that the air-transport aircraft of the foreseeable future will have a single relatively low-paid systems monitor, like a subway motorman, in the cockpit. Once in every billion miles, he or she will have to get on the PA and say, "Folks, I'm sorry to say this, but we're all gonna die. I haven't the faintest idea how to actually fly this thing, and all of our computers have gone mammaries-up. Oh, and by the way, are there any Cessna pilots among our passengers--anybody who actually knows how to hand-fly an airplane? Just askin'..."
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