Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit

Re:Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit by indus on Saturday December 10, 2022 @08:50PM (#33939164)

Automation in aviation can be broken down into:

* Avionics

* Weather

* Communication

* Controls

* Positioning

What Sully refers to automation is controls. Beyond auto-pilot capabilities, there has been advancement but little has gone to mainstream/commercial.

Automation in communication and weather reporting has gone up leaps. Look at ADS-B or real-time satellite based in/out reporting.

Just like the advancement in AI we are seeing with other areas of computing, matter of time before we leapfrog in Avionics and Controls.

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Re:Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit by wrp on Saturday December 10, 2022 @10:10PM (#33939674)

I think there is some confusion here about "automation". The benefits referred to involve providing greater access to information. The problems referred to involve putting more layers of abstraction between you and what you are controlling.

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Re:Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit by iso1631 on Sunday December 11, 2022 @06:09AM (#33942191)

I see this in system admin. It's not a popular view, but automation is not always the best way forward. maintaining your terraform/ansible/etc ecosystem to run a single service on a single raspberry pi that sits in an office running a ticker above reception is far more work than a 5 line instruction manual. Chances are you'll never have to touch that box again until it comes time to move office, and when you do all that automation fails anyway.

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