alt Hacker NewsSo then it's handed off to the autopilot and you are no worse off. But as much as possible, I'd much rather have a human pilot in control.
Militaries have been flying UAVs for awhile now, which must have the same challenges.
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One major difference is if a uav crashes no one dies. But in china there is apparently now a commercial pilotless flying ev taxi service - which is autonomous with a human on the ground in the loop as you are suggesting.
Remote piloting for landing an aircraft that size is problematic because you need more sensors on the aircraft plus a reliable, high-bandwidth, low-latency data link. That doesn't really exist in most places. When the military lands something like an MQ-9 Reaper they typically hand off control to a pilot located within line-of-sight right at the airfield. That obviously isn't practical for civilian general aviation.
The problem is every aircraft model flies differently. The remote pilot would need to be familiar with that particular type of aircraft to safely land it.