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Old 17th Aug 2016, 16:34
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If you want to advocate that a computer system can do the job of a pilot then you need to understand what the job entails. You appear not to. Or maybe you do and you're a troll and trying to wind us up.

So much of what flight crews do involves a balanced judgement rather than black and white decisions. Disruptive passengers, in flight medical emergencies, weather avoidance etc.
Of course this is all goes on behind a locked cockpit door unseen to the passengers but that's no excuse for not having the imagination to think about such matters if you want to argue that computers can do a better job.

I read an article recently by a pilot on this subject and he made a very good comparison with the medical profession in that technology has improved medical care but we never think that doctors will be replaced by robots.

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