Hey Skypilot,
You brought up something interesting :
" aircraft technology is being pushed to the limit to achieve economical flight,
however, are we reaching levels where if we are not going to put an
engineer/programmer back on the flight deck or have the facility of one
available in real time on the ground monitoring controls, can line training ever
keep pace with emerging tech?"
Has aircraft technology now surpassed what the human mind is capable of controlling ? Are we so technologically advanced with these a/c that no matter how great a pilot is, there is not enough training, human thinking capacity or human development to operate these a/c without properly working computers ?
Without being a pilot, I just wonder how much advancement and/or dropping an engineer could be affecting these situations ? It is horrible to see the pilots get blamed for something that no pilot, not even the sharpest, with the most experience couldnt rectify the situations they are in nowdays.
Is aviation actually safer now than it was 25 years ago ? Are there more accidents now with newer a/c than the older ones ? Will we see it become more or less dangerous with the 380 now, the 350 coming the and the 787?