I had a long and safe airline career. Neither would have been possible without another crew member by my side. There are some things technology can’t help with.

When this happens i ll stop flying on that airline !

It’s not just the technology, it’s decision making and having one level head, if the other is ‘in the clouds’.

Those Honeywell "executives" all look like they're in their 20's...They haven't been alive long enough to predict anything.

Germanwings proved the dangers of a single pilot in the cockpit.

This just in: company who would profit massively off of a single pilot future predicts single pilot future. More at 11.

The technology is here. I believe the lawyers and insurance underwriters are the bigger hurdle.

Germanwings 9525. Unless human nature is fixed I don't think we need to say much more.

Just because something can be done does not mean it should be done. I mean, we already have the technology to fly drones remotely which is perhaps okay for delivering your Grub Hub order. But I am betting that 170 souls on board would prefer a couple of those souls be in the cockpit with some skin in the game.

No No never

Can you imaging being the only Pilot on Quantas Flight 32, or Southwest 1380, US 1549?

Just a question... How would the A/P had handled the EMOS failure? Single Pilot will also throw CRM how the door. Who is going to Troubleshoot an issue? Call up an FA.... I would not fly an Airline with only 1 Pilot and I am a person who likes and trusts automation, but not to the point of replacing people.

Who was it that predicted the flight deck of the future would contain a man and a dog. The man was there to feed the dog and the dog was there to stop the man touching anything.

Have a hard time believing insurance companies will go for this anytime soon

The main reason (embedded) is the lack of pilot supply vs. demand. Nothing more, nothing less.

Therefore, we keep hearing about a single guy (or gal) at the pointy end. I weep for that day.

Arguments against this happening mirror those raised in the reduction of crews on Trains, where technology is nowhere near as advanced/sophisticated as on an aircraft. Don't imagine that a huge mass travelling at high speed carrying far more passengers/payloads riding on two slivers of steel is any safer than an aircraft gliding on a cushion of air. The only delay to implementation will be the recent problems at Boeing. The cost saving, however minute, will determine the outcome.

Might take a lesson from the 737 .... They should concentrate on a button to turn automation OFF.

No thanks.

I hope I'm dead before this happens in commercial aviation because that would end my travel on airliners. Even putting a single pilot in FedEx, UPS, and other cargo planes is stupid and short-sighted. I'll bet their unions have something to say about the matter as well.

And I cringe when I read all the predictions about electric aircraft. The electricity to power these new aircraft, as well as all the electric cars we're supposed to be buying soon, must be produced in some kind of power facility. Currently the huge majority of them are powered by fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil), which we are committed to reducing or eliminating within a couple of decades. Solar power isn't efficient enough yet, there isn't enough wind anywhere (outside Washington DC), and people freak out when nuclear power is even mentioned. What do they expect is going to cover the energy shortfall?

The majority of airline crashes nowadays involve some kind of pilot error. Single pilot - if implemented well - has the potential to make aviation safer, as it relies on technology to make the judgment calls. It would also be the only realistic answer to address the pilot shortage problem.

Yes, I hear you, MCAS. But the MAX is ingrained with the Boeing philosophy that places human judgment central, it is not a single-pilot plane and could never be one.

OTOH, it would take another generational expire or two to make single-pilot commercially viable. I'm sure the majority of those in their teens and twenties today won't mind stepping on a single-pilot plane, and they will definitely get the chance later in life.

The last step in this “remove humans from the work force” is to replace those who make those decisions! We reap what we sow!

I hope they’re wrong.

The machines are taking over.LOL

I see Garmin introduced "Emergency Autoland" today. Any passenger can push the button or it can take over if it senses the pilot is incapacitated. Game changer for single pilot operators.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/autonomi/?utm_source=Americas&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=en-US%20Delivery%2C%20Autoland%20Announcement%2C%20avn%2C%20MCJT-26608

Nope. I would purposefully avoid any carrier that tried to implement this, even if it actually happens.

as a blind person, I often wonder if flying will ever be done autonomously.
naturally, safety plays a huge part in a choice like that and frankly I don't think it will ever happen but you never know.

What are the unions predicting?

I can’t believe that I wouldn’t have a qualified pilot setting in the left seat in case of a failure of the system that is in control.

The day they go to "one" pilot, I'll stop flying commercial, if not sooner! Soooo tired of being treated as cattle!

We seem to accept the extra risks of of single-pilot scheduled airline operations already, at least on smaller craft on short routes: here in New England, courtesy of Cape Air, plenty of flights on the nine-passenger Cessna 402C.

And then there is none...

Nah, But don't count on your careers for too long...

FUTURE IS PILOTLESS AND ELECTRIC!!!!!!