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Unpiloted Passenger Jet Tests
spacepingu writes "The UK military recently tested a remote-controlled passenger jet over south-west England. Although the pilot was sitting in the back of the aging BAC 1-11, he controlled it entirely using the 'UAV Command and Control Interface (UAVCCI)'. This also allowed him to operate several virtual UAVs in a simulated attack scenario. The ultimate goal is for a fighter pilot to control a swarm of attack UAVs alongside his own plane. Next March, a Tornado fighter pilot will use the UAVCCI to fly the unpiloted BAC1-11 as well as several simulated UAVs, all from the cockpit of his own jet."
The cockpit of the future will have a button to fly the airplane, the pilot, and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog and the dog is there to bite the pilot in case he reaches for the button.
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don't worry, Microsoft will make sure it is the most secure pilotless aircraft control software *ever*.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
But I want my pilot to go down in flames with me.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Absolutely not.
They want a company well respected in the auditing and security aspects of controlled government computing.
Diebold have already put in a tender.
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This makes each of the UAVs semi-autonomous: they fly straight and level on their own and can be given simple orders using a point-and-click interface on what Williams calls "a simple, flat, moving map".
and later...
The remote pilot has pushbutton commands for each UAV, telling it to loiter, undertake a search pattern, or attack a target," Williams explains.
If this is the kind of game we're playing, we have NO chance against the Koreans.
Poll: was that the best Starcraft joke I could have chosen? What other jokes could I have used?
What about a pilot sitting in the pilot's seat?
...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...
"But how do you control multiple vehicles moving at supersonic speeds in 3 dimensional space?"
You shut off the navigation system, close your eyes, and let your feelings guide you. Or you tank up on Arrakis spice before flying.
Where were you when the voynix came?
of course if Linux was used the pilot only fly to places she liked and if the passangers complained she'd tell them to RTFM and fly the plane themselves.
he he... debt is slavery.
This'll work so long as there's a stewardess to keep the automatic pilot "inflated."
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I want to welcome you to the first ever Atantic flight without an actual pilot. Please do not be allarmed. We have taken every precaution to make this experience the smoothest and the safest in the history of aviation.
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Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
... is such that if this thing had augured-in the headlines would still read "Jetliner Crashes. No Survivors."
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Why, no. Elvis was flying the jets.
Where were you when the voynix came?
I always had some comfort knowing that if I was in a plane crash the pilot would be killed along with everybody else. I imagine it would make a good point of conversation with the other screaming passengers. J'know I could turn to the guy next to me and say 'Well at least the pilot is dieing with us' but then he'd say 'Yeah, but think about it this way. He's probably got insurance, his family will get a big payoff for his incompetance while we're all totally frigging screwed here' Then I'd probably think for a minute and say 'Well okay, how bout this. Let's storm the cockpit and force the pilot into a parachute and throw him off the plane so he'll survive to get fired' then the guy would say 'well that wouldn't really work either, he'll just claim he went out to get help. He'll be hailed as a hero, and he'll probably recieve some great reward for that'. Then I'd probably say 'Okay, what if.. WE took the parachutes, escaped the crashing plane and survived so we could tell everybody that the pilot was incompetant?' Then he'd say 'Once again, that wouldn't work. Historically speaking airplane crash survivors are the most hated out of all accident survivors. If we don't get flogged just on the virtue of our survival we'll probably be thrown in jail for trying to slander the pilot'. Then I'd say 'You know it's times like this I wish airplanes were remote controlled. If the pilot was back at the airport and we all died he'd get fired, and his life might be ruined because of that' Then he'd say 'Yes, that does seem like it would be some small comfort'