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The person to fly in case of an emergency will require the same kind of currency as a person flying all the time. The person flying all the time will be much mo

• saghm 3y ago
  > The person to fly in case of an emergency will require the same kind of currency as a person flying all the time. Almost everyone requires the same "kind of currency", but that doesn't stop salaries from being different. > The person flying all the time will be much more capable than the person watching the plane fly, and acquiring experience only in specific training. If the plane can be piloted mostly automatically, that doesn't necessarily matter. What matters only is if the emergency person can handle the emergencies that do occur. To be clear, I don't have any strong belief that human pilots will disappear any time soon; I just don't think the arguments people are making here are that compelling, because they seem to be assuming that the skill level of flying a plane is much too high for an automatic pilot. As someone who's been skeptical of fully automated driving for a long time now despite popular opinion seeming far more optimistic about it in the short term, it's kind of ironic to see "humans will always be better at flying" presented as axiomatic.