With A Focus On Sleep, Europe Advances Toward Single-Pilot Operations

Falcon 10X long-range business jet
The Falcon 10X’s single-pilot operations concept, explained here by Dassault Falcon Operations Manager David Sebaoun, may prefigure what some commercial OEMs are studying.
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Airbus has long been a proponent of reducing the size of the flight crew in commercial aircraft. The company introduced the first two-pilot widebody aircraft, the A310, in the 1980s and has since studied single-pilot operations concepts. But another European aircraft manufacturer, Dassault Aviation...

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