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[–] Shawdow194@kbin.run 17 points 3 months ago

"And bear in mind, if you go to a one-man cockpit, you might as well go to a zero-man cockpit. Because it all needs to cater for the eventuality that this one guy just ate a bad oyster and is incapacitated and the aeroplane has to take over. So one pilot or zero pilot is effectively the same thing.”

This is like rule 1 in aviation. Literally every component has two, in order to halve the failure rate. Hydraulics for every flap or rudder, two of them. Two jets/engines, both overengineered so the plane can land on either. And yes. Two pilots

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good reason to strike

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Wouldn't that just make things worse? 0 pilots per airplane instead of just 1? /s