Atlas to be sold? Hmmm...
#311
I suspect you’ll see a reduction in augmented crews first. The regulators will probably want two pilots for takeoff and landing for quite some time. One on oceanic tracks while the other sleeps is probably a different story as the automation continues to prove itself.
#312
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2017
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I was positive we'd see drone-based pizza delivery, Door Dash, etc. by now. The future is weird. Most likely I'm wrong, but discussions about this stuff are actually pretty entertaining over a glass of whiskey or coffee.
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I spent over 6 years in the RPA business and very little, if anything, of what we did was autonomous. I missed the hell out of manned aviation and I’m happy to be back in it. I want nothing else to do with the RPA world.
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On Reserve
Joined APC: May 2022
Posts: 15
Watching way to much Jetsons…. paying passengers will never get on a plane without a real person in the cockpit.
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Rubber dogsh#t out of HKG
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Not to take away from the dynamics of trains, as I am sure that they have their own intricacies. Nevertheless, freight trains still have an engineer and a conductor. Nobody has to worry unless one or both are replaced by automation on trains first.
#316
In a land of unicorns
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I disagree. Google "Global Hawk". Yes, different mission and they don't fly out of LAX, JFK, etc, but they could. The datalink is robust, but nothing special. The technology is there, it just needs to be tweaked for freighter or passenger ops. Certainly single pilot ops is very doable.
In fully autonomous flight, a datalink failure (by failure, I'm talking someone taking it over with malicious intent) means catastrophic results and by FAA standards the probability needs to be extremely improbable, meaning not a single failure in the operational life of the system.
There is no such technology available.
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Back on topic.....
It seems that not everyone is happy about this deal.
https://theloadstar.com/unhappy-atla...-push-to-sell/
It seems that not everyone is happy about this deal.
https://theloadstar.com/unhappy-atla...-push-to-sell/
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