{"id":259,"date":"2015-04-07T08:05:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T15:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2015-04-06T13:40:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T20:40:50","slug":"planes-without-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/07\/planes-without-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Planes without pilots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you put more technology in the cockpit, you have more technology that can fail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">~ Amy Pritchett, Professor of Cognitive Engineering at Georgia Tech.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Quoted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1IDOcbg\">New York Times article <em>Planes Without Pilots<\/em><\/a>. The same piece also quotes the normally enthusiastic Professor Mary Cummings, a former fighter pilot and currently director of Duke University&#8217;s Humans and Autonomy Lab, as saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You need humans where you have humans. If you have a bunch of humans on an aircraft, you\u2019re going to need a Captain Kirk on the plane. I don\u2019t ever see commercial transportation going over to drones.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What do you think? What&#8217;s the real value of humans in cockpits?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NY-times-pic-Harry-Campbell.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-260\" src=\"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NY-times-pic-Harry-Campbell-600x547.png\" alt=\"Picture from the New York Times, Harry Campbell.\" width=\"600\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NY-times-pic-Harry-Campbell-600x547.png 600w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NY-times-pic-Harry-Campbell-150x137.png 150w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NY-times-pic-Harry-Campbell.png 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture from the New York Times, Harry Campbell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you put more technology in the cockpit, you have more technology that can fail. ~ Amy Pritchett, Professor of Cognitive Engineering at Georgia Tech. Quoted in the New York Times article Planes Without Pilots. The same piece also quotes the normally enthusiastic Professor Mary Cummings, a former fighter pilot and currently director of Duke University&#8217;s Humans and Autonomy Lab, as saying: You need humans where you have humans. If you have a bunch of humans on an aircraft, you\u2019re going to need a Captain Kirk on the plane. I don\u2019t ever see commercial transportation going over to drones. What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/07\/planes-without-pilots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading Planes without pilots?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,62],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-to-articles","tag-airmanship","tag-human"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}