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05-22-2011, 03:31 PM
Tanksmasher
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I really don't think you'll see it in commercial travel in the next two decades. That's not far away, and there are simply too many things that need to be done that a remote pilot can't do. What's the benefit? Less weight? The performance perk from an aircraft designed without a flight deck and crew would be nominal. But w/out pilots, now you have to assign ground personnel to do the pre- and post-flights. Mechanics are overworked as it is and they're not going to volunteer. And do you want some ten-dollar-an-hour bag-thrower doing it? And who's going to inspect the wings for icing after you've de-iced and the holdover time has elasped due to a long taxi? Plus, complacency behind the controls is a real risk in aviation.
You probably heard about pilots overshooting their destination because "they're working on their laptops" (which isn't a valid excuse, but sounds better than "we were sleeping"). Just imagine some guy at a cubicle flying the aircraft on autopilot, bored out of his mind. Now he can just check his email or surf the auto trader or play Warcraft VIII or watch porn or shoot the shit with his buddy at the water cooler while he occassionaly glances at his office monitor to see that the plane is still upright. That would be the biggest concern for me. Sure I'd love to sit down at the computer (perhaps even my home computer) and fly four legs w/out having to cart my bags from plane to plane and get drenched during a preflight in a storm and go through security and have to do a 20-hour layover in some crappy place like Moline, IL or Killeen, TX, but there's only so many things that a remote pilot can do.
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