haha have a read:
"There have already been successful test flights of pilotless aircraft across the Atlantic and the Pacific, and there are ambitious plans for unmanned cargo craft regularly to fly these routes.
It is a strange human vanity to imagine that error-prone human beings are best suited to flying aircraft. Pilots may tell you different, but apart from wearing smart uniforms and tickling air hostesses under the chin, their main function is to sit idly by while the on-board automatic pilot does the donkey work. Now the American aviation industry is planning to replace them with teams of pilots flying aircraft remotely from centralised command centres."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...569882,00.html