Software Glitch grounds several AA flights

I think I'll take a different flight.

 

In a few more years, you can pull the typical commercial AT pilot out of a plane and give them a written pop quiz on various VFR rules, old-school cross-country navigation, and manual flight protocols, and 75% will fail. Don't get me wrong, I have more confidence in modern aircraft nav and landing systems then I do human pilots as a whole, but there is too much room for hackers to infiltrate various systems to corrupt a computer based system, and that's going to be a problem for pilots with poor manual flight skills. I realize they undergo regular flight simulator skills evaluation tests but these are probably lacking in their true effectiveness.

Can you imagine, bomber pilots 70 years ago were hitting targets at night and dealing with clouds, AA flak and attack fighters all at the same time. They had no GPS, no EFCS, no NDB's or VOR's, no localizers. All they had was a a navigator in the back in the dark with a flashlight, a map, a compass, a stop watch, crude Wx forecasts, a compass and good math skills.

 

One of the problems is that most of these newer pilots (within the last 10 years for sure) have only had training through a program to get their ATP (Air Transport Pilot) certificate. Not a lot of new guys coming in have lots of experience in any other aircraft than the required hours needed.

Guys like my father (Commercial Pilot for 15 years) have logged hundreds thousands of hours in a variety of aircraft (a solid number of those on a VFR flight plan), a variety of weather conditions, and using a variety of equipment in the ####pit, because he's been flying since he was 15 years old.


It's only gonna get worse as we keep trying to make the plane fly itself. UPS is already testing out systems for pilot-less flight.

 

Wouldn't hurt my feelings if pilots today had to use old school techniques to fly these aircraft of today, minus the AA Flak, fighters etc. I feel that technology is making pilots way to complacent in the ####pit. They don't actually fly anymore, they babysit controls and computers.