GATWICK Arrivals
Nimmer. I appreciate your blunt response and if I was a controller, which I am not, but a pilot I also would be concerned at the way ATC is likely to develop. Noise has taken second place or even third place to CO2 emissions but it is more likely in the future to be heading for number one position. This will mean a definitive change in both arrival and departure procedures.
As for autonomous navigation, there is a clear future in each aircraft having its own onboard computer which takes in all the parameters of safety, fuel efficiency, noise reduction, traffic etc from just after take-off. Obviously there will need to be human emergency stand-by facilities - but it is coming. Believe you me.