Would you Fly in a Pilotless Plane

[DulwichFox]

Although this has been suggested on several occasions, just been on BBC Breakfast.

Would you be Happy to fly on a Pilotless Aircraft. ??

I certainly would not.

Foxy.

[Jah Lush]

Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?

[Jeremy]

I suspect that in the future (maybe within some of our lifetimes) driverless/pilotless vehicles will be commonplace.

I wouldn't fancy volunteering as a passenger for the beta version, though...

[El Pibe]

For large chunks of our journies, we effectively already do.

And what with the remote flying technologies already in use by the military seguing into civilian use, no reason why an airline can't just have a call centre with ten pilot for the entire fleet to take over when things get tricky.

Only a matter of time...

[stacey-lyn]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> For large chunks of our journies, we effectively

> already do.

>

> And what with the remote flying technologies

> already in use by the military seguing into

> civilian use, no reason why an airline can't just

> have a call centre with ten pilot for the entire

> fleet to take over when things get tricky.

>

> Only a matter of time...

Welcome on board Drone flight 001.

[david_carnell]

Yeah, I read about this.

Some guy called Miles Dyson and his company Cyberdyne? Perfect flying record. But when it becomes self-aware...

[El Pibe]

:)

[Loz]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Some guy called Miles Dyson and his company

> Cyberdyne? Perfect flying record. But when it

> becomes self-aware...

... it'll get fired from RyanAir.

[StraferJack]

No doubt it is, as people say, ?coming? ? but pointing out that it?s pilotless for most of the time already isn?t that relevant

Pilots are there for when the instruments go wrong ? and that is something I can?t see changing too quickly

All those news stories about a pilot crash landing a plane into a field ? are they going to be replaced by

?the amazing Oric 1 automated pilot froze completely so the automated copilot Dragon 32 patched in, took one look at things and said ?logically, we?re screwed here people?, and gave up?

That first crash on a pilotless flight, and the follow up investigation is going to be intense

[maxxi]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> That first crash on a pilotless flight, and the

> follow up investigation is going to be intense

Especially when they find the words "Oh, fuck..." on the black box.

[Annette Curtain]

Isn't the DLR pilot/driverless ?

That's not crashed, so if the same Pilot/driver wasn't flying the proposed plane, i'd be on it.

It does have wings, right ?

[????]

Everyone being scientific (nerdy), just have faith in the market. People won't like the idea, for a plane worth several hundred million and the good name of your company/brand having a qualified pilot (heck even 2) on standby at say ?500 a pop on a trans-atlantic flight is a no brainer investment even if they do SFA

...which is kind of EP's point

[nashoi]

I'd be happy to fly in one. About half of all plane crashes are down to pilot error, the single biggest cause. When push comes to shove a pilot is only an organic computer, slower, less reliable and more prone to error than an inorganic one, and for all you know has just found out the copilot is having an affair with his wife.

[steveo]

The shuttles? Who flew them?

Chuck Yeagar was the last real one.

[Annette Curtain]

nashoi Wrote:

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> I'd be happy to fly in one. About half of all

> plane crashes are down to pilot error, the single

> biggest cause. When push comes to shove a pilot is

> only an organic computer, slower, less reliable

> and more prone to error than an inorganic one, and

> for all you know has just found out the copilot is

> having an affair with his wife.

Nashoi

You are the EDF's Mr Spock

[Jeremy]

The pilotless plane doesn't really interest me much - technically we're almost there anyway. And as quids says, it's not really going to save any money for the airlines, so where's the incentive?

What really does interest me is the steward-less plane. Automated food and booze vending direct to every seat. Or maybe a giant sushi-style conveyor belt going around the plane, carrying various items of food and drink. Could also be used to collect rubbish, and distribute landing cards and sick bags.

[Otta]

I want to fly on a safety demonstrationless plane.

[El Pibe]

"In case of an emergency raise arms in air and scream until your pulped body is consumed in a conflagration of twisted metal and kerosene"

[stacey-lyn]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> "In case of an emergency raise arms in air and

> scream until your pulped body is consumed in a

> conflagration of twisted metal and kerosene"

♫♫♪♪♫♫♪♫♫♪♪♫♫♫♪♪♪♫♫ Come fly with me, let's die, let's fly away ♫♫♪♪♫♫♪♫♫♪♪♫♫♫♪♪♪♫♫

[stacey-lyn]

> I'd be happy to fly in one. About half of all

> plane crashes are down to pilot error, the single

> biggest cause.

So about half are down to mechanical. Let's just say that's right.

The US Navy just launched an UA fighter jet. And if you look at their track record relating to the most common UA - the drones, it sure doesn't do anything for my confidence in unmanned aircraft. Take the drone attacks in Pakistan as an example, less than 2% hit their targets. Hence either the human remote programming and control is out of whack or there's a mechanical problem. In any event I'm glad I wont be on any US aircraft carrier when one of these jets misses it's target and goes careering.

[DulwichFox]

We would like to Welcome you aboard this flight to New York..

This Plane is Pilotless and is being controlled and flown entirely by our onboard computers.

We would like to re-assure passengers that there is absolutely nothing that can go wrong ...

go wrong ...go wrong ...go wrong ...go wrong ...go wrong ...go wrong ...go wrong ...go wrong ...go wrong ...

Foxy

[DJKillaQueen]

Get into a pilotless plane? No chance....

Have a small list of people I'd happily put in a pilotless planes? Absolutely :D