[WalterBright]

Where a computer fails is when judgment is required. For example, you have an in-air emergency, and are going to have to crash land. What do you pick to crash land on to?

Consider Captain Sully's recent decisions in just such an emergency.

[winthrowe]

Being a private pilot with a lapsed license, I can't possibly see that emergency landing area selection is a problem worse than navigating a street vehicle in an urban environment. Taking all the GIS databases around, I can't imagine emergency landing site selection would be a huge roadblock.

[eru]

And for lots of emergencies you can probably do remote flying from some call centre in India.