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Published · transcript-backedBlake Scholl: belief
19 Nov 2025 Conversations with Tyler Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure - Live at the Progress Conference
“I think what will be seen as a breakthrough in safety, which is about the pilot-airplane interface, the key thing is how the airplane and the pilot talk to each other in a crisis.”
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- Blake Scholl
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- 19 Nov 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…How is the training for supersonic pilots different? Is it much harder? Different at all? It’s a little scary to think. There is such a thing as a worst doctor and a worst lawyer, and a worst airline pilot. We’re designing an Overture such that you don’t need extraordinary skill to fly this thing. The Overture sim, which I’ve spent a bunch of time in, it’s like going from a Blackberry to an iPhone. We’ve deleted all the knobs and switches and buttons and put hardware controls only for the things that are necessary. I think what will be seen as a breakthrough in safety, which is about the pilot-airplane interface, the key thing is how the airplane and the pilot talk to each other in a crisis. It’s very normal to get tunnel vision when alarms are going off, things are not right. The Overture has forced feedback side sticks. You get a whole extra sense of what the airplane is doing in addition to what you see and what you can hear. I think this is going to be a big deal. Can you imagine flying with only one pilot rather than two?…
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