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Old 5th Dec 2014, 10:57
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Sorry, Tourist, but your faith in the infallibility of machines and computers is more than a little disturbing, and your stated view that all modern pilots are incapable of light without the aid of computers is as insulting as it is plain wrong. There are some pilots who have been lead into automation dependency because of dire airline management philosophies, and I am proud to count myself as one amongst many who stand against that deterioration and encourage as much hand, visual and raw data flying as circumstances prudently permit. Many companies are trying to reverse the rot, and there are a lot of skilled operators out there, just as before.

If all pilots were inept and all computers infallible, then you'd be making sense, Tourist, but you come across as a theoretical engineer and someone who has never flown the line. Even line engineers, despite all the banter, know full well that computers aren't reliable enough to be left unsupervised and in total control. And a man far more intelligent than any of us on this forum just made a public statement that AI will be the death of humanity - a point often cheesily made in Hollywood, but true all the same.
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