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UAV Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles > A Dog in the cockpit?

KenJ
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Location: Ohio, USA

Interesting article in the new National Geographic

They discuss how Aircraft will be built to carry a pilot and a dog in the cockpit.

The Pilot's job is to feed the dog, and the dog's job is to bite the pilot if he touches anything!!

Watal they think of next?

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01-06-2004 Over year old.

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Twobeers
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Location: Toronto, Canada

lol & pigs can fly, really!

I lost my infamous tag line.

01-06-2004 Over year old.

yb2normal
Senior Heliman
Location: Broomfield, CO

I read an article a while back about this and they made an interesting point.

They said that we would probably never see a completely pilotless plane because the types of mistakes these planes would make would be totally unacceptable.

While a real pilot can be forgiven for crashing in extraordinary weather, a pilotless plane that experiences a glitch is very likely to crash into the side of a mountain on a perfectly clear day.

And while we would look at the human pilot who crashed and say "well he'll never do that again", we would quickly attribute the same fault of a pilotless plane to every other pilotless plane in the air.

01-09-2004 Over year old.

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MPA
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Location: Australia

Youd be right Bill

That happened in 1970, theyve been blaming automation ever since for not taking evasive action of its own accord as a real pilot would.

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chimera
Senior Heliman
Location: Scotland

So how do I get on that wave then, all for UAV but I could do with a few signposts showing me where the bus stop is.

01-09-2004 Over year old.

yb2normal
Senior Heliman
Location: Broomfield, CO

Mike makes a good point. Autopilots have become ubiquitous on airplanes and they really are good enough to fly a plane.

I think that when you have an airplane full of people though, there will always be a human pilot onboard "just in case". The value we place on human life, and the consequences of a crash are so high that on some subconscious level we need that human pilot onboard. I don't know about you guys, but when I get on a plane, if the cockpit door is open, I take a good look inside

UAV's are definitely taking off (pun intended) and I personally can't wait to see where this technology takes us.

Bill

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