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I'm pretty sure everything in your last paragraph could be done with enough good input (sensors, approach mins, DTED, Digital Wx updates, etc) and the correct a
by yutyut 8y ago
I'm pretty sure everything in your last paragraph could be done with enough good input (sensors, approach mins, DTED, Digital Wx updates, etc) and the correct application of 1's and 0's. Not really that hard of a problem to solve unless you're operating somewhere very data-austere.
To your first point-and I think you hit it but I wanted to emphasize-some helicopters are hard to fly, some mission sets are more difficult than others; hovering with a 30 knot tailwind in a $32 million dollar aircraft with SCAS and AFCS is still a pain in the ass especially when it's low light and you're on goggles...but I guess the AI wouldn't need to be aided, so call that a win.
- sandworm101 8y ago>> ... everything in your last paragraph could be done with enough good input Lol. Helicopters are not 747s. They operate very locally and do things that are not as generic as approaching SFO in marginal weather. A helicopter has to change its operations in reaction not to measured weather, but to the specifics of individual trees. Show me a computer that can take the input: "That tree looks like it is about to fall over" and decide whether to continue a rescue or give up and negotiate a new approach. SAR pilots do that daily.
- yutyut 8y agoSee above, RE: “sensors”
- yutyut 8y agoSorry just being short on a comment that starts with lol. Look at for instance SAR mapping. I can have a “certain curr gen aircraft” SAR map a zone or AO for me and tell me A LOT (UNCLAS/open source).
- sandworm101 8y agoSAR = search and rescue. It is pulling wounded people off cliffs or burning boats.
- yutyut 8y agoSynthetic aperture radar. Perhaps the full body of the world’s knowledge extends a bit beyond your small bubble. Considering the way you lambaste ideas that it is becoming increasingly evident you don’t fully understand, I’d be interested in your credentials.
- sandworm101 8y agoThe flightsuit i don every morning, the one with a flag on the shoulder, says otherwise.
- yutyut 8y agoI appreciate the appeal to patriotism buddy but I’m right there with you in a flight suit. The fact that you are in a job that requires a flight suit says a lot less about your experience than your comments have. I don’t like to throw the word boot out but...