Agency: Pilots caused 3 San Francisco airport close-calls

For starters a close call to the FAA is probably way different than what the target audience in the article is thinking. With that said, there has to be a better way of directing traffic at big airports. Way to easy to make a wrong turn and end up where you shouldn't.
 
Automated flights, taking pilots out of the mix, can't come soon enough. :stirpot:
 
Challenged said:
Automated flights, taking pilots out of the mix, can't come soon enough. :stirpot:
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About a 5 year horizon before all planes will be fully automated. No need for human pilots.

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Grum.Man said:
For starters a close call to the FAA is probably way different than what the target audience in the article is thinking. With that said, there has to be a better way of directing traffic at big airports. Way to easy to make a wrong turn and end up where you shouldn't.
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Although journalists listed the wrong turn case in order to pad up the article, the 4 close calls were genuine. When Air Canada screwed up the 1st time, the vertical separation from the United jet that they buzzed was less than a wingspan. The rest were a little better. In the other Air Canada case one has to wonder if it was a remarkable coincidence that crew switched to the Ground too soon right when it was a life-and-death situation with the go-around instructions, or if they do it all the effin time and we only knew about it because they missed the go-around call. Surely you can flip the flop on the radio when crossing the hold short line. The Compass case was blamed on the tower and thus didn't count against the "3 caused by pilots".
 
Can almost guarantee our 172 will not be fully automated within five years. There may also be one or two (or several tens of thousands) of airliners, biz jets, fling wings, etc., of fairly recent construction, that will not be automated, as well.
 
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