After Eliminating Navigators and Flight Engineers from Cockpits, Now Airline Moves to Eliminate Copilot

[Weatherman2020]

What could possibly go wrong?

Cathay Pacific Aims for a Single Pilot in the A350 Cockpit During Long Hauls - FLYING Magazine

According to Reuters, Cathay Pacific Airways is currently working with Airbus on Project Connect, a plan to introduce “reduced crew” long-haul flights with a single pilot in the cockpit much of the time. Though Cathay has not given a final go-ahead to the single-pilot idea, the airline hopes to...

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[AMart]

Not a good idea. Airliners are marvels relative to redundant systems and at the very least you better have a redundant system for piloting.

 

[toobfreak]

What could possibly go wrong?

Cathay Pacific Aims for a Single Pilot in the A350 Cockpit During Long Hauls - FLYING Magazine

According to Reuters, Cathay Pacific Airways is currently working with Airbus on Project Connect, a plan to introduce “reduced crew” long-haul flights with a single pilot in the cockpit much of the time. Though Cathay has not given a final go-ahead to the single-pilot idea, the airline hopes to...

www.flyingmag.com

There's a downside to this? All I see it doing is SAVING LIVES.

When the plane goes down in a flaming crash, it'll save the lives of the co-pilot, navigator and flight engineer that used to be there! That's THREE lives! The more planes crashed, the more lives saved.

And it'll save a lot of jet fuel previously used to lug that pilot support crew around.

If the pilot needs to pee, let him just do it in his diaper. After all, it's good enough for Joe.

Now, I think we should eliminate the pilot, too. Damn, overpaid union workers! Make the flight like a driverless Uber taxi. Let the computer do the flying.

Then we can eliminate all the passengers, too. Just PRETEND you're already at where you need to be.

Look at all the savings! No more four hour long waits in line for the TSA. Brilliant. Color me "on-board."

 

[RodISHI]

toobfreak Some people will take you seriously and think that all sounds really good. Heck, if the modern day aristocrats get their way they will only have a few peeps left to deal with around the globe.

 

[toobfreak]

Some people will take you seriously and think that all sounds really good.

GEE, I SURE HOPE SO. Maybe they will open the new era of just piloting your own plane, to go along with Kramer's make your own pizza.

Just think of the savings for the airline if they no longer have to carry liability insurance because the passengers can no longer sue because it was THEY who flew, and crashed, the plane all by themselves!

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Cathey will live to regret this if they do go down to 1 pilot.