Dualinput
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: 30k
Posts: 55
I don't think full automation (removing both pilots) is going to work. There would be various instances where human intervention will still be required. i.e diversions. If this is done remotely (from ground), imagine the risks we will expose ourselves to! Technologically and security wise. Imagine some radical group hacks all the airplanes in the sky as we speak! Scary!
Not to mention a myriad of other circumstances it simply can't handle and... hate to break it to everyone...but it's very unreliable in a relative sense. It needs constant monitoring much the same way as humans hand flying do and in many ways more.
It's a great tool in many situations. But thats all it is. That thing people say about "those things fly themselves" is pure malarkey.