Originally Posted by
John Farley
And for dealing with engine out issues where looking out of the window helps and so on.
I'm afraid I can't agree with you on that one.
Neural nets that have been around for decades in aviation will do the flying bit better than any human, and the sheer number of telemetry inputs a computer can cope with make it far more likely that a computer will correctly diagnose correct engine/nature of problem etc.
Linked to this is the other advantage that an autonomous aircraft will have. The ability to bin V1 and have greater performance.
V1 is a construct entirely created to cope with poor human data recognition and decision-making. Computers don't need it.
The other advantage of computers is that you do know how they will cope. Humans are difficult to second guess. For every Sully there are ten who get over excited, particularly in todays benign environment where nothing ever happens.
Till it does.