The coming single-pilot airliner

[Boac]

What happens to the F/Os? How do folk 'progress' from ab initio to 'commanding' the craft? Do you have to get the 'hours' somewhere else and if so, where?

[ExSp33db1rd]

........and if so, where?

Microsoft Flt. Sim ?

World's Gone Mad.

[Ex-Ascot]

They forgot to mention the dog.

[Boac]

I'm going to start a Simulator training programme for dogs.

[OFSO]

Why not ? If pilot becomes incapacitated, all dog has to do is punch autoland button with his nose. Might not be good idea to recruit Yorkies for the job.

[ExSp33db1rd]

Might not be good idea to recruit Yorkies for the job.

Pointers ?

[OFSO]

And for navigator, a setter. On routes over the former USSR, a red setter.

[Slasher]

I'm going to start a Simulator training programme for dogs.

Once I quit airlines on Oct 1st I bet they'll take you up on that Boac. No doubt my first sim trainee will be Muttley.

[Undried Plum]

Didn't the septics train pigeons to steer a missile to a moving target?

It was a sort of visual ILS:- needle left = peck left; needle right = peck right. Needle up: peck up, etc..