Yeah nah they ain't going to replace real pilots with drone systems any time soon. Drones have their place, but the capacity to replace significant parts of our aviation infrastructure isn't going to be there for decades. They're inherently worse for almost any operation than a manned aircraft.
Airlines? No way in hell are people trusting a plane with no pilot, and a signal interruption killing fifty people would go poorly. Cargo? Drones of that scale just don't exist yet. And fully automated systems are far from reliable enough for either market.
Drones might add new markets, but they are far from replacing current ones, and transferring real pilots to drone pilots will be a major part of it when it happens.
I am talking about actual long distance commercial load carrying drones. Outside of military attack and surveillance drones, which are piloted, the commercial drone world is largely quad rotor style. The automated delivery drone that amazon tried to use was this type, for example.
I personally flew multiple fixed-wing UAS using that autopilot when it was new, and they were fully capable of autonomous takeoff and landing back in 2011.
I'm talking about commercial load size craft, not microplanes. Automated drones for long range unsupported action are nowhere near the functionality of a full sized cross country flight cargo plane. The complexities of flight are more than just making a robot go point a to b across a short distance. Terrain and weather and emergency management all require a real pilot and potentially cause signal loss, and a high tonnage cargo drone going down is a huge liability.
Yeah, the thing that's going to be putting aviators out of work will be lack of demand for commercial flights because people won't be able to afford to fly places in a massive recession and with ever increasing carbon taxes. Better get licensed on a Learjet quick, those are going to be fine, our betters have places to be.
Yeah nah they ain't going to replace real pilots with drone systems any time soon. Drones have their place, but the capacity to replace significant parts of our aviation infrastructure isn't going to be there for decades. They're inherently worse for almost any operation than a manned aircraft.
Airlines? No way in hell are people trusting a plane with no pilot, and a signal interruption killing fifty people would go poorly. Cargo? Drones of that scale just don't exist yet. And fully automated systems are far from reliable enough for either market.
Drones might add new markets, but they are far from replacing current ones, and transferring real pilots to drone pilots will be a major part of it when it happens.
Making it fly a bigger plane is comparatively trivial.
Automated drones are all quad rotors, those are slower and more stable, and they don't scale as well. Fixed wing aircraft still require human pilots.
Self driving trucks would make more sense. Infrastructurally, bringing trains back would make even more sense.
Please research outside the world of children's toys.
I am talking about actual long distance commercial load carrying drones. Outside of military attack and surveillance drones, which are piloted, the commercial drone world is largely quad rotor style. The automated delivery drone that amazon tried to use was this type, for example.
Fixed-wing autopilots came first, and have been available in the hobby space for well over a decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArduPilot#Early_years,_2007-2012.
I personally flew multiple fixed-wing UAS using that autopilot when it was new, and they were fully capable of autonomous takeoff and landing back in 2011.
I'm talking about commercial load size craft, not microplanes. Automated drones for long range unsupported action are nowhere near the functionality of a full sized cross country flight cargo plane. The complexities of flight are more than just making a robot go point a to b across a short distance. Terrain and weather and emergency management all require a real pilot and potentially cause signal loss, and a high tonnage cargo drone going down is a huge liability.
Yeah, the thing that's going to be putting aviators out of work will be lack of demand for commercial flights because people won't be able to afford to fly places in a massive recession and with ever increasing carbon taxes. Better get licensed on a Learjet quick, those are going to be fine, our betters have places to be.
they replaced pilots and air traffic controllers with diversity hires, i trust drone pilot ai more than shaniquakwa