More Pilots Like This on the Horizon

[arjay]

Robots anyone? ��

 

[two-bit cowboy]

Robots anyone? ��

Heck, we already have self-driving cars.

Coming to an airport near you: self-flying jets. Wanna ride?

 

[Retired W4]

Many other nations have much lower standards for pilots than the US. The better training is why US based pilots can fly out of problems that cause foreign, especially Third World planes to crash.

A big part of the shortage here seems to be related to layoffs and firings related to pilots not wanting to take the COVID vaccine.

Mexico any one? This link may give you a taste of what goes on with ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization. as it pertains to other counties.

Mexico Fails Latest Technical Review & FAA Keeps The Country In Category 2

I never operated under Part 121 (AR 95-1/Part 91) and the age requirements are very different. OK with me. I retired at 59.

BTW, Army flight school education requirements for WOCs when I signed up (1968) was a high school diploma. We called it High School to Flight School and it worked very well. Some of the major's academies know this.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Last flight I was on was 1999. I'm tired of being treated like cattle. I can drive where I want to go & be more comfortable. No more flying for this guy.

 

[MDF4]

There is such a thing as, "Natural flying ability." You can train (almost) anyone with a degree and a moderate IQ how to be a technician and to operate complex machinery eg; commercial jets, but that does not make them a professional, nor the person I would want to ride behind.
High school to flight school? That's a professional.

 

[BSA1]

Last flight I was on was 1999. I'm tired of being treated like cattle. I can drive where I want to go & be more comfortable. No more flying for this guy.

I absolutely hate flying also. I am working on convincing my wife to try a passenger train next time we go to the East Coast. Lot longer of course but the comfort and perks seem worth it.

 

[Retired W4]

There is such a thing as, "Natural flying ability." You can train (almost) anyone with a degree and a moderate IQ how to be a technician and to operate complex machinery eg; commercial jets, but that does not make them a professional, nor the person I would want to ride behind.
High school to flight school? That's a professional.

I well remember the first time my IP picked that TH-55 up to a hover. I was hooked immediately.

 

[Dougaz]

Turn this problem over to Elon Musk .... Problem solved

 

[quikdraw67]

Mexico any one? This link may give you a taste of what goes on with ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization. as it pertains to other counties.

Mexico Fails Latest Technical Review & FAA Keeps The Country In Category 2

I never operated under Part 121 (AR 95-1/Part 91) and the age requirements are very different. OK with me. I retired at 59.

BTW, Army flight school education requirements for WOCs when I signed up (1968) was a high school diploma. We called it High School to Flight School and it worked very well. Some of the major's academies know this.

Your High School diploma from 54 years ago is probably worth a BS Degree from most colleges today.

 

[johngalt]

The best way of solving the problem (well, most businesses for that matter) is to fire all the MBAs.

 

[fordson]

I well remember the first time my IP picked that TH-55 up to a hover. I was hooked immediately.

We were in TH-57s and I was hooked the first time we backed up!

 

[Exaviator]

"Robots anyone"
The flight had just become airborne and over the P,A. came the captains voice, "Welcome aboard everyone, this is a prerecorded announcement, welcome aboard the world's first fully automated flight. There are no flight crew, everything is automatic. Sit back and relax, and remember, nothing can go wrong, nothing can go wrong, nothing can go wrong..."

 

[Beemerguy53]

Heck, we already have self-driving cars.

Coming to an airport near you: self-flying jets. Wanna ride?

Air&Space Smithsonian had an article on this subject a few years ago. The technology to build a pilotless airliner already exists...but most passengers don't want to fly in one.

 

[two-bit cowboy]

Air&Space Smithsonian had an article on this subject a few years ago. The technology to build a pilotless airliner already exists...but most passengers don't want to fly in one.

Thanks to two aeronautical degrees I still get the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumni magazine.

I read about all sorts of crazy stuff in there that I'll never try.

Okay, if you don't want pilotless jets, how 'bout drones controlled by some smart 12-year-old like a computer game?

 

[VonFatman]

not a problem if you do not climb into aluminum germ tubes.
just say not to real-id.

 

[fordson]

Thanks to two aeronautical degrees I still get the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumni magazine.

I read about all sorts of crazy stuff in there that I'll never try.

Okay, if you don't want pilotless jets, how 'bout drones controlled by some smart 12-year-old like a computer game?

ERAU Alumnus?

 

[Beemerguy53]

Thanks to two aeronautical degrees I still get the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumni magazine.

I read about all sorts of crazy stuff in there that I'll never try.

Okay, if you don't want pilotless jets, how 'bout drones controlled by some smart 12-year-old like a computer game?

Here you go...

Would You Fly on an Airliner Without a Pilot? | Air & Space Magazine|
Smithsonian Magazine

 

[Golddollar]

Here you go...

Would You Fly on an Airliner Without a Pilot? | Air & Space Magazine|
Smithsonian Magazine

Not only NO but HECK NO!

 

[two-bit cowboy]

ERAU Alumnus?

Yes: '85 BPA & '91 MAS

 

[two-bit cowboy]

Not only NO but HECK NO!

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