747 Advanced Decision Day

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 30 Jan 2005, 18:42

No Flight Engineers for both, sorry

Seb.

Knight255 · Post by **Knight255** » 30 Jan 2005, 20:34

God I hate computers!!!!!!!!!!!!! They've already kicked out one person in the cockpit and it may still continue!!!! Not good news for my job industry.

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 30 Jan 2005, 22:42

It's indeed sad to see how the computer has kicked away the engineer's place in the cockpit.

But computers have also enabled the civil aviatoin to continue its evolution to a more reliable, safe and comfortable way of transportation.

Chris

Andries · Post by **Andries** » 30 Jan 2005, 23:31

Knight255 wrote:They've already kicked out one person in the cockpit and it may still continue!!!!

They won't reduce the cockpitcrew to 1 ... just imagin that one getting a heart-attack ... Cockpits in civil aviation will stay a 2-person-occupancy for a looooooooong time !

Greetz,

Andries

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 31 Jan 2005, 07:56

The 2 pilots is a redundancy safety feature in aircraft, just like redundant hydraulics etc, so as long as there is a pilot, there will be two of them.

This as opposed to a flight engineer, who was mainly there to make life easier for the pilots, and whose tasks are now handled by computers.

Also, I have no doubt a computer can be programmed to perfectly replace the pilots, but being a computer scientist myself I would rather trust my life to a pilot (make that two, please) than to the person who programmed the computer....

(Of course this might just be because I don't know any pilots, but I know what computer programmers are like..)

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 31 Jan 2005, 16:42

Andries wrote: They won't reduce the cockpitcrew to 1 ... just imagin that one getting a heart-attack ... Cockpits in civil aviation will stay a 2-person-occupancy for a looooooooong time !

It'll be either 2 pilots or non at all

Chris

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 31 Jan 2005, 18:34

bits44 wrote:Looks like the 747ADV may get the go ahead

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/b ... ing27.html

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Qantas next likely customer

It appears Qantas may be in line for 787's and 747ADV, and possibly 777's as well.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/ ... click=true

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 31 Jan 2005, 18:56

Cargolux will be one of the launch customer.

Seb.

BP · Post by BP » 31 Jan 2005, 20:52

Lets hope that the good old Queen of the skies, gets the thumbs up from Boeing.It would be very sad to see her disapear into history, like so many other fine aircraft.

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 31 Jan 2005, 21:03

Bits44, Qantas have already 12 A380 on firm order. I don't see them ordering B747Adv by now... more likely B787 and B777.

Regards

Seb.

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 02 Feb 2005, 21:16

Looks like we all have to wait for a while for a decision

http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArtic ... ID=7514853

Knight255 · Post by **Knight255** » 02 Feb 2005, 21:19

Not too long though. Where is the $$$ going to come from though for the development of the 747Adv??? Uncle Sam doesn't buy into new aircraft (unless it's military) aircraft. Boeing had better hope the 787 will turn a profit otherwise, they may have to wait a while for some capital.

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