SIC: Redundancy for PIC, both for incapacitation and judgement.ĪI can't do human judgement. PIC: Provides human judgement, especially in non-normal situations. Navigator: INS, long-range (ground based, now GPS), and moving map displays eliminated the need to shoot stars out of a porthole for celestial nav and plot dots on paper.įE: Systems management is largely automated, and that's not rocket science. the co-pilot can use the radio mostly like making a phone call. Radio operator: Better radios, better ground based infrastructure, SATCOM took away all of the required art and most of the science. My kids are young so it really needs to be another55-60yrsAirliners used to have 5-7 flight crew. The nerds won’t stop looking for a way to eliminate us.
