Single pilot cockpit in commercial airlines

[MacDaddyPanda]

I can see this happening absolutely. They can have an AI cloud based pilot(I'm imagining this part). In humanoid form, https://www.scmp.com/video/asia/3233669/korean-researchers-unveil-worlds-first-humanoid-robot-pilot

Or a fully autonomous humanoid pilot.

 

[Analog Kid]

Tesla has forever undermined the public perception of what “autopilot” can do.

Even if their only job is to check the blinkenlights, I think people are going to want a competent adult on site and in charge of the system. I think that means two for redundancy. “A flight carrying 300 passengers was left to an unsupervised autopilot when the lone pilot was incapacitated” headline will severely degrade confidence in the airline industry even if it lands without incident.

 

[MacDaddyPanda]

Tesla has forever undermined the public perception of what “autopilot” can do.

Even if their only job is to check the blinkenlights, I think people are going to want a competent adult on site and in charge of the system. I think that means two for redundancy. “A flight carrying 300 passengers was left to an unsupervised autopilot when the lone pilot was incapacitated” headline will severely degrade confidence in the airline industry even if it lands without incident.

Yeah, It'll probably take a few generations growing up with AI/Autonomous controlled vehicles as the norm for it to be ubiquitously accepted and trust.

 

[KaliYoni]

I can see this happening absolutely. They can have an AI cloud based pilot(I'm imagining this part). In humanoid form, https://www.scmp.com/video/asia/3233669/korean-researchers-unveil-worlds-first-humanoid-robot-pilot

Or a fully autonomous humanoid pilot.

For example...

 

[Huntn]

For example...

The trick might be to get people to fly on a single Pilot airplane. Without doubt they already have the ability to build airplanes that can conduct the entire flight on an automated basis. But human pilots still have, at least my impression is that they still have an edge, as long as they can directly manipulated the controls.

However, with the move to fly by wire, this is decidedly less true with Flight Control systems (computer) and pilots are no more than putting in a request into the airplane via their controls and the aircraft decides to honor or dishonor their request. Not the same as having direct control. 🤔

 

[Parsec]

The trick might be to get people to fly on a single Pilot airplane. Without doubt they already have the ability to build airplanes that can conduct the entire flight on an automated basis. But human pilots still have, at least my impression is that they still have an edge, as long as they can directly manipulated the controls.

However, with the move to fly by wire, this is decidedly less true with Flight Control systems (computer) and pilots are no more than putting in a request into the airplane via their controls and the aircraft decides to honor or dishonor their request. Not the same as having direct control. 🤔

While this is true, commercial fly-by-wire systems tend to still have a manual override function

 

[Huntn]

While this is true, commercial fly-by-wire systems tend to still have a manual override function

Pull CBs and then your left with the most basic of flight control which is still fly by wire at least that was the Airbus, which btw, I always liked flying.