Two Heads are Better than One: Single Pilot Operation Threatens the Safety of the Friendly Skies

Authors

Alexandria E. Rook

Keywords

Boeing, Single Pilot Operation, SPO, Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, MCAS, airlines, safety, automated piloting, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, Airbus

Abstract

Boeing’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (“MCAS”), an automated piloting system, is only supposed to handle aircraft operations in very specific circumstances. Despite devasting results with MCAS, Boeing has another automated piloting system on the horizon that poses even more grave risks: Single Pilot Operation (“SPO”). Boeing—along

Recommended Citation

Alexandria E. Rook, Two Heads are Better than One: Single Pilot Operation Threatens the Safety of the Friendly Skies, 77 Ark. L. Rev. (2024).
Available at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/alr/vol77/iss1/6