COMMERCIAL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS INTEGRATION PLAN

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:06:38 -0500, "Dan Luke"
wrote in
:


If I were a UPS or FedEx pilot, this would worry me. How much do you think
the freight companies could save by replacing human pilots with machines?

Their salaries are not that high as it is.

How much higher do you think the insurance premium will be for a
pilotless flight? Will the UAV be programmed to avoid populated areas
in the event of a forced landing?

"Larry Dighera" wrote:


If I were a UPS or FedEx pilot, this would worry me. How much do you think
the freight companies could save by replacing human pilots with machines?

Their salaries are not that high as it is.

Where'd you get that idea, Larry?

http://www.willflyforfood.cc/Payscales/FedExPay.htm

And furthermore, salaries are only part of the true cost of employees. There
are also benefits, training and administrative overhead that can be dumped.
This will be an absolute no-brainer costwise once the technology is ready.


How much higher do you think the insurance premium will be for a
pilotless flight?

I'll bet it will be lower after the insurers get some actuarial data to go
on. Even if it's higher at first, the cost savings of axing personnel will
more than offset it.

Will the UAV be programmed to avoid populated areas
in the event of a forced landing?

Easy to do.

--
Dan
T-182T at BFM

Dan Luke wrote:
"Larry Dighera" wrote:


If I were a UPS or FedEx pilot, this would worry me. How much do
you think the freight companies could save by replacing human
pilots with machines?

Their salaries are not that high as it is.

Where'd you get that idea, Larry?

http://www.willflyforfood.cc/Payscales/FedExPay.htm

And furthermore, salaries are only part of the true cost of
employees. There are also benefits, training and administrative
overhead that can be dumped. This will be an absolute no-brainer
costwise once the technology is ready.

How much higher do you think the insurance premium will be for a
pilotless flight?

I'll bet it will be lower after the insurers get some actuarial data
to go on. Even if it's higher at first, the cost savings of axing
personnel will more than offset it.

Will the UAV be programmed to avoid populated areas
in the event of a forced landing?

Easy to do.

And when the first FedEx UAV crashes into downtown Memphis there will be a
huge overreaction that ends R/C aircraft as a hobby but continues to allow
FedEx UAVs.

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:


And when the first FedEx UAV crashes into downtown Memphis there will be a
huge overreaction that ends R/C aircraft as a hobby but continues to allow
FedEx UAVs.



What about when the UAV busts a TFR. Will the computer be properly
trained in interception operations?

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrote:

And when the first FedEx UAV crashes into downtown Memphis there will be a
huge overreaction that ends R/C aircraft as a hobby but continues to allow
FedEx UAVs.

No doubt.

Alas, as we have seen over the last 6 years, the American public is easily
stampeded into going along with any sort of outlandish nonsense.

--
Dan

"Almost all the matter that came out of the Big Bang was two specific sorts;
hydrogen, and stupidity."

-Robert Carnegie in talk.origins