Automated Commercial Passenger Planes
08-02-2011, 06:39 AM
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In your 20's
If you are in your 20's and reading all this there is plenty of time for aviation to become completely automated. By the estimation of some it is already there. Compared to what a DC-3 crew had to use we are flying computers already.
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08-02-2011, 06:55 AM
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Post #9 seems to fit the bill.
Are you again only targeting P121 flying?
I am amazed, and thrilled, at the amount of hands-on flying I am required to do in my P91/P135 job.
Sometimes I can't make out the difference between your rants against aviation in general and the airline profession.
Compared to what the people flying the Nieuport biplane fighter had at their fingertips, people flying the DC-3 as you mention had it pretty good
I think it is called progress.USMCFLYR
08-02-2011, 07:15 AM
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Automation is what you want it to be
As time marches on automation and ground control slowly is pushing its way into all corners of aviation. I believe that it is making it so that airlines can hire pilots en masse with little experience.
As automation makes advances pilots lose market value. Some here might be alright with that.
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As automation makes advances pilots lose market value. Some here might be alright with that.
Skyhigh
Last edited by SkyHigh; 08-02-2011 at 07:28 AM. Reason: Spelling
08-02-2011, 07:20 AM
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As time marches on automation and ground control slowly is pushing its way into all corners of aviation. I believe that it is making it so that airlines can hire pilots in mass with little experience.
Automation makes advances pilots loose market value. Some here might be alright with that.
Skyhigh
Automation makes advances pilots loose market value. Some here might be alright with that.
Skyhigh
"en masse" and "lose".
Likewise grammar, "As automation makes..."
Carry on.
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