3bars,
Thanks for your reply.
The first gain for pilotless commercial aircraft are i believe that if pilotless commerical aircraft were in operation i dont believe 911 would have occured. Please read my earlier posts to this thread for the reason around my belief.
The savings for airlines would be massive as at present you have 2 pilots per commercial aircraft. F/O & Captain & on some older aircraft a flight engineer also.
With a pilotless aircraft system in place run by ground control OPS, pilots may be required to monitor/rectify any issues if needed.
In the ground control OPS 1 pilot can monitor/rectify issues on multiple aircraft at the 1 time, just like an air traffic controller can control aircraft movements for multiple aircraft at 1 time.
Just the same as our modern cargo container shiping ports now use control towers where 6-8 people work using radio control or GPS tracking co-ordinates to operate loading & unloading cranes on multiple cargo ships at the 1 time.
Years ago it was 1 crane operator in the port would operate 1 crane, now 1 operator in the control tower can operate multiple cranes at the 1 time for load & unload functions. This has allowed cargo ships turn times to greatly reduce & shipping ports to load & unload many more container ships than in the past.
Their is the money savings, less employees with higher productivity & hopefully a flow on from this will be cheaper airfares.
Chock Chucker
