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Considering more and more aircraft is fly by wire and most pilots get their "air time" in sims, is there not a advantage in building a mock cockpit at the back

Considering more and more aircraft is fly by wire and most pilots get their "air time" in sims, is there not a advantage in building a mock cockpit at the back of the airline with a backup pilot to take over when other protocols are met? All this is doing is highlighting how one person beit the president or prime minister of a country, judge's, GP's, practically anyone including a pilot can steal some or all of other people's lives to one degree or another. Edit. Where I am going with this, is the Space Shuttle had 4 control systems and majority rule or agreement of the 4 control systems made things happen. I dont think more than 2 cockpits would necessary. Another left field idea, is the cock pit doors could be engineered so that if enough people all pulled on a rope firmly attached to the cock pit door like a tug of war, in order to gain access to the cockpit, then maybe the passengers have a chance. However this relies on the passengers not being deceived by the pilot which is also what is troubling the air line industry and so called psychologists. When you can work out when you are going to lose your temper in the future, let the psychologists know, they might be able to study it....

toast0 4y ago
It's all about tradeoffs. You could increase the number of pilots to hopefully reduce the number of these incidents, but the added complexity might increase other incidents and would reduce the capacity for paid passengers and increase the labor costs when there's already a shortage of qualified pilots willing to work for the airlines. Same thing with the doors. They got strong locks and protocols to use them in response to rare events, but it makes other rare events harder to manage. We generally live in a pretty trusting world, which enables many things, including violations of trust with major consequences.
- Terry_Roll 4y ago
  > It's all about tradeoffs Trade offs that we have to trust other people to make the right decisions and we only have to look at how people game the system for money, just look at Jeff Bezo for a prime example!

toast0 4y ago

It's all about tradeoffs. You could increase the number of pilots to hopefully reduce the number of these incidents, but the added complexity might increase other incidents and would reduce the capacity for paid passengers and increase the labor costs when there's already a shortage of qualified pilots willing to work for the airlines. Same thing with the doors. They got strong locks and protocols to use them in response to rare events, but it makes other rare events harder to manage. We generally live in a pretty trusting world, which enables many things, including violations of trust with major consequences.

Terry_Roll 4y ago
> It's all about tradeoffs Trade offs that we have to trust other people to make the right decisions and we only have to look at how people game the system for money, just look at Jeff Bezo for a prime example!