I think if he had proof, he would not have used the word “guess”. Just Say’n.
Yeah, those greedy Air Force types are trying to get rich. Wait, what?
Money is a good thing. Greed is a bad thing. Greed existed before money, and will persist without it. Yes, USAF officers often grow to be too careerist, but I don’t think they are the truly greedy types.
We are likely not the best people to figure out why young people prefer not to be pilots. Many of us love flying, so there’s going to be a disconnect.
And a cat. The dog keeps the cat awake. The cat shows the pilot which way is down.
As a former soldier, I find the idea of having necessities arrive where needed without risk of life a good idea. I suspect, if the USAF is having issues finding pilots, eliminating the need is a reasonable reaction.
I think the picture of a huge plane chosen for the story is likely warping the message. If the contractor is starting with a Cessna, perhaps the Air Force will start with smaller planes also. The amount of resources involved in the safety of a C17 flight would likely justify a human crew in almost every flight.
More likely we might see a fleet of those new Cessna twins being developed to serve forward air fields and later maturing into a solution for Fed Ex or similar.
Refer to the recent articles on one pilot tankers due to ongoing and future shortages, along with the current admins emphasis on feel good, woke, equity inclusion as being primary efforts in the new and increasing understaffed military. Action - reaction.
The PC inclusionary equity wokesters, they just finished up another multiday session for all the brass.
With all the negative comments her, you’d think this spells “aeronautical armageddon”, or something.
Wait, what??
But yep, it’s coming sooner or later. Stop saying “it’s impossible” — because it is. And it’ll start first with the overseas freighters. I think Fed Ex has already jumped on it. So don’t be a “Luddite.”
Now, back to your regularly scheduled broadcast.
Yall seem to get quite emotional about this topic. Which proves why it is such a good idea. The other article today talks about a 2 captains on an ATR crashing a perfectly good airplane and 71 pax. How many crashes are pilot induced ? Runway incursion at JFK could have been a bad one. Look in the mirror: you are human. The military have been flying all kinds of unmanned craft for years now, so they will know a thing or 2 about it. Also : unions strongly object single-pilot ops, so voila : you reap what you sow. Imho FAA and pilots have brought this upon ourselves through lack of vision and innovation. I repeat : my drone has better avionics than many an airliner and most of the GA fleet. The question is not : will this be perfect ? Rather : will it be better than we have today ? Before you answer : go over all of last years crashes and think about all those poor souls killed by their pilots.
Thumbs up. We’re looking at the Nirvana fallacy, variously attributed to Churchill as “Perfection is the enemy of the good”, or similarly to Voltaire, or to an Italian proverb.
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You would think so, but the article specifically states that the contract is for “large, multi-engine jets”.