You don't need separate pilots when the "pilot" does their job by clicking waypoints on a map, like they do today with Global Hawk. Carrier landings will be aut

You don't need separate pilots when the "pilot" does their job by clicking waypoints on a map, like they do today with Global Hawk. Carrier landings will be autonomously handled by the airplane as was demonstrated just shy of ten years ago. Think "give the thing orders" rather than stick and rudder flying, especially when unmanned aircraft are handed off when they are already in-flight. We will get to the point when we give drones mission-based orders ("go do $TASK"), where $TASK is decomposed into many, many decision points that the drone or drones decide (and re-decide as the situation evolves) for themselves. Eventually we will be able to voluntarily take the human out of the loop in certain scenarios (to reduce reaction time and human error). Note that this has been the case with the Navy's Aegis Combat System for decades, with Auto-Special Doctrine. When in this mode, automated systems "consummate the engagement" in the Navy's terms, with zero human involvement. Note that this mode has never been used IRL.