Thursday 18 July 2013

UAV Lands on carrier,- Pilot's nightmare or not?

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".

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