Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit
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Re: Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit
#2“There's language in a new bill now introduced in Congress — the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill — asking the Federal Aviation Administration to reconsider part 121 and to allow the use of a single pilot operation, first in cargo aircraft.”
Re: Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit
#3I would hope that auto flying and landing is quite good and robust before considering single point of failure for the pilots. This also assumes that no pilot would act out against the health of their crew and passengers.
In other words, when they can safely fly with no pilots they can have one.
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#4I'm not sure I'd want to travel on commercial aircraft if the regulators eliminate pilot redundancy.
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#5Computerized flight has come a long way, and that was true even in the 1970s. It may just be a matter of degrees / situations...
And as long as passengers are duly alerted when the inflatable copilot is deployed in emergencies...
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#6> Prior to 2010, pilots needed just 250 hours to start flying for a commercial airline. The Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010 raised this requirement from 250 hours to 1,500 hours.
>co-pilots in foreign countries are required to have just 240 hours, with some of those hours occurring in a simulator.
This is from a different article but feel like this is lower hanging fruit than getting rid of two co-pilots completely. don't know if the "pilot shortage" is still happening that resulted from lots retiring/taking buyouts at the beginning of covid but it is quite a lot of hours to train for a role that doesnt pay too much.
https://injuryaccidentnews.jcreiterlaw.com/2019/10/09/do-int...
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#7> American Airlines Capt. Michael Johnston died of a heart-attack mid-flight from Phoenix to Boston early Monday morning, his wife Betty Jean Johnston told NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/travel/american-airlines-ca...
So, if he was the only pilot in cockpit, everyone on the flight would have died too?
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#8I'm generally anti-union, but happy to see the union here pushing back against this. This is definitely not in passengers' interests, and normally passengers don't have an advocate with any power, so it's nice to see our interests are aligned with the pilots' union.
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#9I'm generally anti-union, but happy to see the union here pushing back against this. This is definitely not in passengers' interests, and normally passengers don't have an advocate with any power, so it's nice to see our interests are aligned with the pilots' union.
>I'm generally anti-union, but happy to see the union here pushing back against this.
Damn, it's almost like workers rights and safety are aligned in some way...
Re: Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit
#10> American Airlines Capt. Michael Johnston died of a heart-attack mid-flight from Phoenix to Boston early Monday morning, his wife Betty Jean Johnston told NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/travel/american-airlines-ca... So, if he was the only pilot in cockpit, everyone on the flight would have died too?
Perhaps they meant somewhere else in the plane