"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message
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In article ,
Bob Fry wrote:

Not my statement. See
http://www.longbets.org/4

What sayeth the group wisdom? I think eventually there will be
pilotless aircraft, the question is when.


Not bloody likely for commercial service. Aircraft have to maintain
visual separation in VFR conditions and have to have human pilots to
deal with emergencies -- especially the unanticipated kind, like running
out of fuel and finding a suitable emergency field, or flying through a
volcano plume and losing all four for awhile.

That's assuming VFR will still exist 25 years from now. And if the plane
runs out of fuel, the plane can be remotely flown by an outsourced Indian
pilot in a cubical in Bangalore.