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> Should piloting a plane solo be outlawed? Pretty much every civil aviation authority in the world requires two pilots on commercial flights.
by haiku2077 1y ago
> Should piloting a plane solo be outlawed?
Pretty much every civil aviation authority in the world requires two pilots on commercial flights.
- bookofjoe 1y agoClearly my reference was to non-commercial flights. See: bush pilot in Alaska.
- xhkkffbf 1y agoMany bush pilots charge cash to fly people. And in the age of pretty good long-distance telemetry, I'm sure that 99% of the time there's not much need for the second pilot in a big jet. It's that 1%.
- tomale 1y agoI've never really thought about it, but I guess I'm a little uncomfortable with noncommercial anesthesiologists and I would prefer that they are supervised.
- bigfatkitten 1y agoThere’s a lot more to commercial aviation than RPT (Regular Public Transport) operations. Some of those commercial ops include single pilot IFR in Class G, into dirt airstrips at night.