PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Pilot-less Airliners
View Single Post
Old 12th Feb 2014, 22:15
  #94 (permalink)  
404 Titan
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Asia
Age: 56
Posts: 2,600
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Greenlights

I have to ask you this. How old are you? How long have you been in the aviation industry? I ask you this sincerely because some of the stuff you’re saying is truly, to put it bluntly, immature. Technology wise there is absolutely no reason why we couldn’t have had single pilot airliners going all the way back to when they were conceived in the 1920’s. There are though two pilots in high capacity airliners for the very same reason we have a minimum of two engines, multiple hydraulic systems, multiple sources of electrical supply etc etc. It’s because of redundancy. It’s an accountant’s wet dream, and yes I am an accountant by trade as well as a pilot, to reduce all costs associated with running an airline but until we can eliminate the possibility of mechanical and human failures, redundancy is here because of necessity.
404 Titan is offline