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it freaks me out that they are already discussing pilot-less planes. Thats what my mom tells me everyday, that in 20 years I'll have no job, planes will be fully automatic (just like the pax terminal shuttles in Orlando). Heck, I'd never step on a plane without a pilot, dollars to donuts I can handle a gusty crosswind better than the computer can.
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You probably can't, my friend. Not that I'm putting down your flying skills, but I believe there was a test of a military airplane and they had a bunch of fighter jocks watching the test. At first, they were saying, oh, hell, I can fly better than any computer can, but after watching what the computer can do, they were amazed.
However, I think that we will always have pilots on commercial airplanes. You can't hit control-alt-delete when you're at 35,000 feet.
And if anyone tells you that aviation is a career where you can lose your job so easily, just point out to them that there are thousands of people who had 100K plus jobs who lost their jobs to people in Bangalore or Poland or the Ukraine.