You are not a pilot, I realize that. You have very little to no understanding of what you are talking about regarding flight. Yes, autopilot holds a straight course through clear weather. The pilot still has to put it in and monitor it, the computer will crash the plane if an instrument fails where the pilot can still handle a visual only landing.
Dealing with a hazard, emergency or failure is why a trained pilot is necessary, beyond all the other administrative / conmunication duties that an AI cannot do. In perfect conditions the pilot does not need to correct the autopilot between takeoff and landing, but takeoff and landing are the most difficult and dangerous parts of flight.
You are not a pilot, I realize that. You have very little to no understanding of what you are talking about regarding flight. Yes, autopilot holds a straight course through clear weather. The pilot still has to put it in and monitor it, the computer will crash the plane if an instrument fails where the pilot can still handle a visual only landing.
Dealing with a hazard, emergency or failure is why a trained pilot is necessary, beyond all the other administrative / conmunication duties that an AI cannot do. In perfect conditions the pilot does not need to correct the autopilot between takeoff and landing, but takeoff and landing are the most difficult and dangerous parts of flight.
I reiterate: you are not a pilot. QFT.
I'm sure one of the worlds largest aerospace multinationals is testing visual-based autonomous flight tech with a commercial airliner type plane for no reason at all!
Why oh why would airbus develop a vision-based autonomous system? Golly gee, I wonder what the end goal of this development path could be!?
I do not need to be a trained pilot to know what technology exists, read the fucking news, and see what's going on in the world.
We will not have human pilots forever.