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Old 22nd Jul 2013, 23:14
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Speed of Sound
 
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It is too much to hope the individual companies to start solving the problem as many are of he opposite philosophy. It's a sad future in the short term.
This has to be done by regulation.

If margins are tight and the company sees this:

Automated sector: Fuel used 2,305 kg

Partially hand-flown sector: Fuel used 2,357 kg

The accountants see that 52 kg they multiply it by the number of sectors the company flies a day and decide that hand-flying costs their company £X.XX per year.

Safety arguments are dismissed by the comfort of knowing that if lack of ability to fly does cause a crash, it will likely to be the other guy's plane which will crash.
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