Comment Re:How about just an iPhone and save even more? (Score 1) 372
Not sure, I only fly in consumer sims, not the real thing.
I do know that most FMCs work primarily off of GPS - you might be routing VOR to VOR, but you aren't actually tuning them in and following a radial in.
Some airliners can theoretically perform a full flight takeoff to landing. All the pilots would need to is taxi to the runway.
Never quite that simple in the real world due to ATC, but the tech is there.