Interesting posts so far...
If engineers can develop a very powerful computer and feed it with a databank that e.g. includes 30 years of the UK mandatory occurrence report, we have combined two components: a "brain" and "experience".
Nobody has mentioned the "cargo rats". Maybe freight-pilots will become obsolete before the "bus drivers" (as a few pax have called me before
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I believe the future of this will be more foreseeable when the military has made a decision on the upkeeping of its
real fighter and bomber pilots. If the military wants to keep 'em, then it is a good sign for us civil pilots...
Just my thoughts ...
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