Airbus Proposes Flight Deck Potty For Single Pilot Ops

Right now, the crew must access the rest of the plane for rest, toilet needs, and food. Wouldn’t take much for planes to be designed so that the flight deck and rest and refreshment areas are separate from the main cabin (look at cargo aircraft). You could eliminate the door to the cabin and only have the F/D accessible from the aircraft exterior. Since you have crew members in the cabin, you would not need cockpit access to the main cabin for fire fighting.

I’m sure this is a delayed April Fools joke by Airbus. Or throw and “idea” at the wall and see what sticks. NY to Tokyo in a single pilot Airbus XXX SPLR. (Single Pilot Long Range). All aboard. So somebody tell me how UA 232 Sioux City Iowa, USAir 1549 Hudson River would have worked out single pilot?

Peak insanity. Seal off the main cabin from the cockpit. Then, at that point, who cares whats up front anyway? As long as…well, you know… we get there.

It is already being suggested that we remove military pilots from cockpits all together. How long will it take before your Airbus pilot is sitting at home in his/her PJ’s?

Yes, everything you say is true, but I was referring to the unfortunate circumstance that all of those things reached their fatal conclusion while he was seated on the commode.

Hey, Tosla cars work, don’t they?
/sarc

(Actually while not nearly enough distance/time has been driven by self-driving cars to make a meaningful conclusion, so far data suggests no worse than human drivers who make mistakes.
Of course pilots make mistakes, some comparable to the Tesla system that can’t decide which fork to take in a road until it is too late to avoid hitting things between.
And there are the local delivery robots who can’t decide things either: 1.8M views · 8.9K reactions | I thought it was some kind of traffic cop robot | Cheezburger.

I suspect not everyone can read that robot video as it is on Facebook.

With quiet flight decks due better aerodynamics today, is voice recognition enough instead of radio?
Well, yApple phone users say no, it is quite variable - sometimes botches a word.

I see strange pictures after reading this… not to mention the smells.

Well, who wants to read a book on the potty when they can fly an airliner???

Wasn’t the standard protocol up to that point in terms of hijackings to comply with the hijacker request? I’m genuinely asking because I’m pretty sure I read that. I don’t think those pilots were really even given a fighting chance? Like up until 9/11, the idea of using an airliner as a weapon wasn’t really a risk that was heavily considered? That seems like the weakness that was exploited, the willingness to comply with hijackers.

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