Originally Posted by
LlamaFarmer
Could a modern day computer have dealt with Sioux City,
I'm getting really bored of answering this question.
Yes, It could.
NASA trialled a system in the 70's that dealt with it so well that a PPL managed to land the aircraft.
It was transparent to the pilot and took about 2 seconds to fully learn how to fly using only variable thrust.
Re can computers make decisions like humans.
No, they don't get scared or excited and make errors.
They think at 1000 times the speed and get all the maths right. They never misread a landing distance chart, they know which is the nearest suitable airfield.
The one area that a human will be better than a human for the near future is black swan event.
There are very few of them.
There are a lot of pilot errors.
That sort of thing is exactly what computers are really good at.
Can't be bothered to hunt for the links again.