What worries me is that a pilot sitting at a console in a building somewhere just isn't going to have the same incentive to pilot the plane properly as he would if his own life depended on it as it would if he were in the actual cockpit. Should this come to jetliners, even if modern jetliner piloting involves a lot more data entry into flight computers, setting autopilots, etc instead of actually flying the plane, the pilot still has more incentive to enter that data correctly, or set that autopilot correctly, or whatever when his own life depends on it. And what of all the pre-flight checks? Everything from having the correct amount of fuel onboard to the tires being in proper condition? Where is his incentive to verify all these things are correct when his own life doesn't depend on it like the passenger's lives do?
