Thanks for your inputs & i dont mean to be rude but i think you guys are really old fashion in your thoughts.
Their is no reason why a pilot could not work in a ground control terminal controlling & monitoring the aircraft that is in flight if required.
Fires on board & failed systems can be controlled & rectified form a control station on ground. Aircraft are fitted with fire detect systems & can discharge automatically at the slightest wif of smoke or fire, way before a pilot could detect.
Failed systems, well their are so many redundant systems that if 1 fails then 2 or 3 will automatically take over. Weather & weather radars will get better overtime & this will be no worries at all either.
i'm just going down to my local radio controlled aircraft club to fly my radio controlled aircraft. Gee their is no pilot in my radio controlled aircraft. OMG Where all going to die!
No pilots in all those pilotless drones flying around also. OMG once again, Gee where all going to die!
If a bank staff member had told you guys 40 year ago that in the future you would be able to get cash out of a hole in the wall called an (ATM) with no cashier 24 hours a day 7 days a week you would have laughed at the bank staff member & told them they were crazy & it would never happen. No way, never ever ever.
Chock Chucker