alt Hacker News>For recognising that you're in a shit situation, yeah, it'll probably do that fine, but won't be able to give the correct control inputs at the right time.
Even that im not sure of, I know relatively little about aviation safety but I can imagine that there are all kinds of 0.0000000001% percent corner cases that no plane has ever encountered that still need some sort of reaction, who knows how easy an llm can distinguish those from the 0.000000001% corner cases that no plane has ever encountered that are completely fine and can be ignored.
I agree with your intuition, There are lots of corner cases, but there are also a fucktonne of checklists: https://www.aviationhunt.com/boeing-737-normal-checklists/ (this is just a small "normal" one) but for loads of situations there are check lists, thats something the LLM can probably do very well.
However its as far as I know the check list volume scales with how "airline-y" the plane is. so for a one seater, the checklist is small and only handles a few things. For a 777 its a binder.