10th July saw the landing on an aircraft carrier of a US X47B drone. The pictures may have driven a shudder through the global pilot community. Is the future moving from the cockpit to ground control rooms inhabited by a different breed of people?
Perhaps not,- at least on the airline side of the business. Here's why:
Scene: The Drone Control Room of MegaAir anywhere in the world.
Controller of a very large pilotless airliner: "****. I've knocked my coffee all over the keyboard....Now where's 195 gone?"
Alternatively:
"This is Al Quaeda Ops. We now have control".
Perhaps not,- at least on the airline side of the business. Here's why:
Scene: The Drone Control Room of MegaAir anywhere in the world.
Controller of a very large pilotless airliner: "****. I've knocked my coffee all over the keyboard....Now where's 195 gone?"
Alternatively:
"This is Al Quaeda Ops. We now have control".
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