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Is It Possible to Fly a Plane With One Pilot?
The aviation industry has started leaning towards one pilot-operated aircraft for the plans. This system would assist with crew shortage problems and lower costs in general. However, the whole operation's pressure would be on just a single pilot, which creates further questions about the possible safety results of this plan. (aeroxplorer.com) Plus d'info...
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There is no redundancy in a single pilot operation!
"There is no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way – is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?"
By the way – is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?"
certainly not consistently in a safe enough manner.
Its been done for many years some by the military in twin engine medium bombers, A20 and B26 for two.
There are also some GA twins like the King Air dont know which models that are Exec which are also. Am sure there are more which I think are done the same way. Also there are some good sized singles that are too.
There are also some GA twins like the King Air dont know which models that are Exec which are also. Am sure there are more which I think are done the same way. Also there are some good sized singles that are too.
How about no pilots? The military is flying drone missions with the pilots on the ground. Some general aviation aircraft with safe return have " no pilot capability". Aircraft are becoming so computer controlled that the pilots in the aircraft cannot override the computer commands in some circumstances.Of course this all goes out the window if the GPS system can be compromised.
Of course it's "possible". But is it smart? Even today roughly half of airline accidents can be attributed to pilot/crew/human error. Going to one pilot not only takes away the second brain and set of eyes to potentially trap errors, it also obviously removes the backup should one pilot become incapacitated. So it only stands to reason that we'll most likely only see single pilot airliners when they become fully autonomous and the human operator just serves as a backup until the technology is deemed safe enough for completely human-less operation. I don't see that happening for many years.
