Trump ¨ Pilots are no longer needed¨
 

¨Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT. I see it all the time in many products. Always seeking to go one unnecessary step further, when often old and simpler is far better. Split second decisions are....¨

The president added in a second tweet: "I don’t know about you, but I don’t want Albert Einstein to be my pilot. I want great flying professionals that are allowed to easily and quickly take control of a plane!"

:ugh:

Contradictions, yet the old B-727 was a great airplane with a flight engineer always monitoring.

So he was actually opining the opposite to what the thread title suggested at first glance.
Good on him - he's right of course.
KISS

Yup. The thread title is absolutely wrong. On purpose??

Trump tweeted ¨Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT¨

Thats a fact.

His second tweet, below he realized his error and corrected.

I actually think you've misinterpreted his words. He's being sarcastic in that first paragraph. He goes on, in the second...to clarify that first remark - which could be seen as poignant given recent events...

Don't get me wrong - I'm not standing up for the guy - but credit where it's due - he bemoaning the unnecessary over-application of technology.

I used to think technology was there to serve humanity rather than introduce more levels of distracting complexity.

Trump is darn right. Today's pilots are not recruited for their flying skills but for their technological knowledge. The present philosophy is the technology is so advanced that there is no need for pilots no more. The old man is right and I concur to what's he saying. Pilots should control the plane and not the other way around.
Soon Trump will be blamed for the 73" crashes

Same here - then some guy called Steve came up with the iPhone - and we've become increasingly enamoured, hooked and infantilised by the nonsense ever since.

I was going to write this on another thread but I think it is more appropriate here:

"When it is man v machine gravity will win out"

And for once and maybe the first time I find myself somewhat in agreement with Trump. But of course technology allows the extra $ to be squeezed out of the performance.

Figure of speech. Automation has been replacing and/or reducing pilot's workload, actions and inputs, which is true.

It is not the pilots, it might even not be the software systems.
In most cases, it is a sensor breaking up, or feeding wrong information to the pilots/systems.

We absolutely need more and better quality control (and back-up's) for the sensors.

The best back-up already exists, and is fitted. It's called a pilot.

Yes, and that's a good thing; you want to hold the yoke and keep your feet on the rudder pedals for the entire way across the pond ? - never deviating +/- 20 feet or 3 degrees left or right? I thought not. Me neither.

Automation has it's good and proper useage as part of the aircraft systems and the aeroplanes we fly - it's our world.

What is fundemnenatlly needed is an in depth knowledge of how far one can go - with these systems, i,e; when do we take over from the machine - who has laboriously been flying us for thousands of miles...and then makes a mistake.

Or worse still - makes a profound judgement error on TO - due to a mistake we may or may not have made.

It's not cut and dried as much as you think it is - or wish it to be.

Tech has a habit of being work in progress. We are a part of that.

It is true that pilots are no longer needed - the automatic controls are perfectly capable of crashing the aircraft by themselves without the need for pilot input.

And, without the pilots - less compensation payable, and more profits from which to pay the compensation. Win, win!

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