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I see what Tom is getting at, though. I consider myself a free speech near-absolutist. I make exceptions for things like slander and threats (basically 1A), and I am wary of granting a business entity things like lobbying rights. I argue that there is a difference between a group of people...

For sure!

Oh I think that they should be available. Please don't infer that I want to halt their development. I just think we need to look beyond "safety and efficiency," when we make sweeping decisions about things. I absolutely do not think that they should be mandated. @Clip4 I should have...

I had an earlier post in the thread about how we need to decide if the point of life is to exist or if the point of life is to live it. I think there is a happy medium but I'm firmly against removing someone's agency because it's good for them. I fear that if AVs proliferate that we are a...

Which is why I think we are a very long way from having an autonomous aircraft that flies without a crew.

So last night I did night currency work. I hadn't flown at night in many months (I resisted the urge to say since last year) and wanted a second pilot, so I paid a friend who is a CFI to go along with me in the right seat while I flew off some landings. I have also hired friends who are...

Do you think that I am disagreeing with you here? I'm not. As far as autonomous vehicle testing, AV Industry Association reports 44 million miles traveled by member vehicles, with 1 serious injury: https://theavindustry.org/resources/blog/data-44million-miles A NHTSA report found that 45%...

Right. And I don’t see pilots’ unions agreeing to single pilot operations any time soon either.

We have had automated trains for several years. If anything, they are the easiest vehicle to automate, and yet even freight rail maintains two crewmembers in the cab.

I'm not advocating single pilot ops or replacing cargo pilots. Far from it. What I'm saying is that when you look at transportation mishaps, the majority of them are down to human error. When you look at road vehicles, the current crop of autonomous road vehicles are safer than human drivers...

Where do you draw the line, though? Let's say that you are an older person who owns something like a 182 that you used for personal transportation, but you either lost your medical or don't feel like you can safely fly it solo anymore. So, you hire a commercial pilot that you know to fly the...

Also no thread drift intended but I like your profile picture. I find the "general aviation" thing funny because isn't corporate aviation considered "general aviation," in many cases because they are operating Part 91? As far as autonomous airplanes, I think that Lockheed flew an L-1011 back...

I shook the rust off after some time away, started working on commercial requirements, joined a club, and got checked out in a PA-28 for the first time.

First of all thanks for this thread. I am currently practicing and studying for my commercial and this is super interesting. I'm going to check the videos out, but is there a link to the original article? Also, while practicing 8's on pylons with my instructor, once we were established on...

This has almost certainly been posted, but Merry Christmas PoA friends!

Nah I ain't that brave. Just commercial.

Theoretically I could tell you that I am able to be paid to fly, but I can't ask you to pay me to fly?? :loco:

Get certified to be paid to fly but not to advertise that I can get paid to fly.

120 years ago today. Weather has me on the ground today but hopefully some of you all can get out and celebrate!

That is interesting about Cirrus. I would imagine that the lack of a definitive "yes" or "no" to unlatching the door is to shield the company from liability, but I think it's telling that they devote several pages of the manual to it. I've watched the windshield being removed from a 172 and...