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 with Airbus—wants to replace one of the pilots in the cockpit of commercial airline flights with the new SPO technology it is developing. The FAA should not allow SPO technology to be implemented because it is premature, motivated by financial gain to the detriment of safety, and ignores the importance of professional judgment in the cockpit.
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).
https://doi.org/10.54119/alr.yhmz1419
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/alr/vol77/iss1/6