When the Terrorists take out GPS...

I recall years ago when I first heard R&D forecasters predicting that pilots would need to adjust to a radically altered role and competition from technology. If pilots didn't adjust, they said lower wages and job insecurity would be in their future. Those forecasters were laughed at by most pilots. No matter. Those scientists went underground and busied themselves minimizing the role of the pilot.

I think Murdoughnut's OP is important for 2 reasons. The increasing gulf between the training and use of cerebral piloting skills (both old and newly developed techniques), vs. pilot welcomed reliance on automation, presents 2 main risks to JC members. One risk is to National Security. The other risk is the diminishing importance of the pilot's future role in commercial aviation. If younger pilots keep trying to laugh this off, their fate is sealed.

Below is a glimpse of this second risk, that to commercial aviation pilots. Your tax dollars at work. NASA's Aurora Flight Sciences. When they aren't planning delivery vehicles for Solar Radiation Management flights, they're working to reduce aviation employers' reliance on pilots. To many R&D people, aviation's future isn't controlled by the pilot anymore, it's controlled by them, or soon will be. Aviation is owned and funded by the employer. Employers and passengers are the driving mission behind much aviation R&D. Not pilots.


NASA - Aurora..... "Our objective is to replace pilots with operators"


NASA - Aurora ...... GA "pilot optional" aircraft

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MikeD touched on the National Security aspect. I'll post more on Yung's National Security arguments later.
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When Terrorists takeover the GPS system, hundreds of G1000-equipped skyhawks piloted by aviators with less than 3 year old pilot certs will fall out of the sky like rain. Everyone else will just hit the CDI key to VOR.

Except after 2020, there will be 50% fewer VORS (per FAA memo April 2012).

Yeah, but by then GA will be dead and robots will be flying 121.

...made by Cyberdyne.

IFR = I follow roads

And by 1980 the FAA will completely phase out the NDB network.

I gotta say, I am so on board with getting modern aviators back to basics!

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Bahahahahahaaaaa! I laugh now, but you wait...!