Airline pilot — how we know

Nearly as flat as the controller's line beside it, and for the same reason with one difference worth reading. The starting level is the highest of the flat group, because this cockpit was already the most automated workplace on this site before any of this: autopilot, flight management and automatic landing are decades old and none of what changed after 2022 is built on them. The checkpoints where other occupations climb steeply do almost nothing here, because the capability class that moved — reading, drafting, answering — is not what this job is gated on. What gates it is a licence that requires a named person to have personally carried out three take-offs and landings in the preceding ninety days, and that changes by rulemaking rather than by release note. The small late rise is the licensing regime itself widening to name a new category of aircraft that exists because of control automation. Read the height and the slope as two separate facts: this line is high because the machine already flies, and flat because the rule still says who is responsible when it does.

Assessment date

2026-09-23

Basis of the task judgements

2 evidence-backed · 4 platform inference · 0 not enough evidence

Verified events

1

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