An onboard pilot and remote copilot for aviation safety, security & savings

Abstract

The 21st Century Aviation System can substantially improve the piloting of cargo and carrier aircraft with an onboard pilot/s and a remote copilot residing in a secure ground-based aircraft simulator. This paper will highlight the benefits, which are: to increase: (i) aircraft payload and fuel economy; (ii) homeland security; (iii) airport efficiency and automation; (iv) safety and security of the public and edifices; (v) ADS-B utility and economical justification; (vi) the real-time digital-data required for safe and secure 4-dimensional ATC/M and free-flight, and to decrease: (i) piloting and maintenance personnel costs; (ii) aircraft avionics costs; (iii) aircraft weight; (iv) aircraft acquisition cost; (v) hijacking; (vi) insurance costs; (vii) the need for expensive runway expansion programs; (viii) flight delays; (ix)aircraft crashes; (a) type disasters; (b) decompression disasters; (c) ground incursions, etc.; (x) unauthorized flights into restricted airspace; and (xi) the need to recover flight data recorders.