In rec.aviation.piloting Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
On Jun 21, 12:45?am, wrote:
In rec.aviation.piloting Le Chaud Lapin wrote:

I think the day will come when the average person, one who is not
inclined to do all the things that are required in 2008 to earn a PPL,
will be allowed, and even encouraged, to get into the air, by all the
federal agencies that matter, including the FAA.

People have been daydreaming about automatic cars since the 1930's,
which is an extremely simple subset of the automatic airplane problem.

Automatic cars don't exist and there is little likelyhood the will
exist anytime in the near future.

You are a comic book reading babbler with no connection to the real
world.

So basically you are saying that the FAA, NASA, EAA, AOPA, and Boeing,
are wasting their money sponsoring PAV?

Unless you have a computer that is the equivelant of Mr. Data from
Star Trek, there will never be an automatic airplane for every Joe
Sixpack.

Is that clear enough for you?

As to whether or not PAV is a waste of time, basic research generally
eventually results in something usefull, though not necessarily
resulting in the stated object of the original research.

And anyway, automatic airplanes already exist, they just don't carry
people.

Have you ever heard of a Preditor?


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Jim Pennino

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