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Will all planes in the US Air Force be drones eventually?
Posted on 2/20/15 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 2/20/15 at 1:45 pm
With advancements in technology will there be any reason to have actual pilots in the planes?
Would we even need pilots in commercial planes?
Would we even need pilots in commercial planes?
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Posted on 2/20/15 at 1:46 pm to weagle99
Based on the amount of time it is taking me to learn to fly my drone... I'm saying we still got a while.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 1:46 pm to weagle99
god i hope not.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 1:46 pm to weagle99
They will be upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. After that, they will fly with a perfect operational record.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 1:50 pm to weagle99
I don't think it will ever get to that point. But if I was 17 or 18 years old. I'd take a look into being a UAV pilot. Especially with the salary you can make in that field.
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starting salaries for drone pilots range from $50,000 to $120,000 per year, said Tom Kenville, who founded a trade group called Unmanned Applications Institute International. Analysts who process images captured by the vehicles can earn $100,000 per year starting out.
... one of his fellow students at the Traverse City, Mich., school recently landed a job operating unmanned aerial vehicles for a private military contractor overseas. “He got like $200,000 per year,” Bailey said. “And he didn’t even finish his associate’s degree.”
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Posted on 2/20/15 at 1:51 pm to weagle99
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Would we even need pilots in commercial planes?
I'm sure the passengers of Flight 1549 would disagree. I don't think ditching a broken airliner in the Hudson is something a computer can learn.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 10:18 pm to weagle99
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Will all planes in the US Air Force be drones eventually?
"eventually" there will be no Air Force.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 10:35 pm to weagle99
Already being done
Posted on 2/20/15 at 10:40 pm to Mudge87
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I'm sure the passengers of Flight 1549 would disagree. I don't think ditching a broken airliner in the Hudson is something a computer can learn.
There would still be a pilot in the OPs scenario, just not inside the plane
Posted on 2/20/15 at 11:21 pm to weagle99
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Will all planes in the US Air Force be drones eventually?
No. Go study what a UAV does when it goes "lost link" and then get back to me with your opinion if you want a nuclear loaded aircraft to operate in that fashion.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 11:55 pm to TigerBait1127
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There would still be a pilot in the OPs scenario, just not inside the plane
My point was more about how young pilots these days are so ingrained with computer-based flight instruments that they have no idea how to respond to crisis. See Air France 447 and Airasia 8501
Posted on 2/21/15 at 1:13 am to CadesCove
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They will be upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. After that, they will fly with a perfect operational record.
And then
"Hasta la vista, baby!"
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