What about something like the Hondajet? It can be flown single pilot and has push-button start, automatic lights, automatic anti-icing, automatic yaw damper, etc. Is there any reason why this kind of automation couldn't be implemented in a larger cargo jet?CpnCrunch wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 12:27 pm [quote=Rockie post_id=<a href="tel:1145190">1145190</a> time=<a href="tel:1614096243">1614096243</a> user_id=5632]
Flight engineers used to be just that...engineers. They monitored and ran the complicated and decidedly unmonitored and non-automatic systems available at the time. They did not ever need to be pilots. Do you fly large transport airpłanes ayseven? I ask only because if you do your flight operations management is likely beating you over the head to not just sit there like a turnip when you’re PM. You have important things to do, and it’s not filling out the logbook.
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I know nothing about a Honda Jet. I do know the MEL’s on large transport category aircraft are at least 5 inches thick because stuff breaks. I do know flight management is great when it’s programmed properly and a hindrance when it’s not, and also a hindrance when the environment gets dynamic. I know autoflight modes are super at menial tasks for long periods of time, and can kill you if used improperly. They are also of no use at all during many failures.
705 operations are a lot more stringent than the rules under which a Honda Jet operates, and if you extrapolated the Honda Jet single pilot operation out to the number of flights, hours and kind of all weather 24/7/365 operation routine at large carriers the accident rate would be horrific. Safety encompasses a lot more than just the automatic starter and other gizmos on the machine. Plus as I said, stuff breaks.