Very interesting clip in the ALIAS system that just flew a 737 and landed it in a controlled environment.
What is your opinion on this?
Will it make air travel safer?
Did you know this has already been implemented on several smaller aircraft?
In my opinion this is a great asset to have as you want to make your life easier. However I firmly believe we should always have at least two professionals on board monitoring the situation.
Interesting to say the least! Let me know what your opinion is in the comments below.
Technology and automation is good but an error can always happen. Hunan beings have the ability to deduce and solve a scenario. Thatās why a human flying the plane is a terrific idea.
Iāve worked on jobs where machines will fail, computers will crash, and even humans err. We need some level of automation but not FULL automation in my opinion.
Agreed, most of crashes are due to pilot error which ignored the warnings from computer so maybe ALIAS should be added as co-pilot. ALIAS could be programmed to raise concern when it donāt agree with human pilotās decision. Iām not so sure about programming it to override pilotās decision if it find human pilotās decision to be unsafe since computer can get bugs/glitches like with QF72 on Airbus A330.
Nice idea but the problem with us human beings is that we tend to over reason. A robot would be nice in the cockpit as long as there are human beings supervising it.
Yeah thatās why I believe that ALIAS should be able to argue with human beings about their decision if it believes to be unsafe. However, Iām not sure about drawing a line where ALIAS can override actions itself except maybe when it believes pilots are going to commit a suicide. Airline ground center could tell ALIAS to override when passengers are believed to be in danger.
Little off topic here, why canāt I reply to you guys directly? I was able to do so to moderators and other regulars.
I donāt want ALIAS to be pilot of entire plane to itself, just have it as copilot will do. Human being and computer can cover each otherās flaws and provide more safe experience for passengers.
And the plethora of debilitating possible emergencies that could incapacitate a human that far outnumber the likelihood of a system crash, and pilots only have 1/2 redundancies whereas a computer has far more
I agree, but one must also see that technology like this can be implemented for other uses in aviation, maybe use this as an emergency where maybe all cabin passed out and didnt respond to tower?