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loanrangerofpeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Pilots aren’t paid to manually fly the aircraft from A to B. They’re paid to handle emergencies and abnormal situations. The kind of situations that automated systems are extremely poor at handling.

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lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
TIL, thanks for the info!

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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yep.

If you want to see why we need highly trained, highly skilled pilots, with strong work ethic and principles, just go watch The Flight Channel.

When systems fail (and they do all the time), these are the folks ensuring you make it to the ground at an appropriate speed (or not).

“You never want to run out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas”. We’re a long way from tech itself generating ideas on the fly.

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