"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Peter Duniho" wrote:

Actually, a computer can do a great job of anything you can think of.
It
has a problem if something comes up that nobody thought of

A computer can do a great job, if the solution is properly developed.


The real question is whether pilots on average are able to come up with
inspired solutions to problems more often than they create problems with
perfectly good airplanes.

Another valid question is:

Would the effort required to develop hardware/software for pilotless
aircraft be more or less effective than the effort to develop
hardware/software
to help protect pilots from error?


You don't set out to build a pilotless aircraft immediately. That is why
Ford built a Model A before he learned how to build a Mustang Convertible.

Effective big systems evolve from effective small systems.

You keep adding automated decision support systems and automated control
systems, and automated planning systems, into the existing cockpit
environment.... and one day, you may wake up and realize: Hey, the pilot no
longer has anything to do.

*THEN* you build your pilotless aircraft.