“Just because you don’t have a pilot, there is a whole infrastructure that doesn’t go away,” he says. If the pilot is gone, additional workers or more training for existing ones may be required to carry out those tasks, Blair points out. Pilots of small cargo planes carry out a host of jobs apart from flying, including supervising loading, checking weights and balances, and going through preflight checks that include a final walkaround to make sure cargo carts or a fuel truck haven’t damaged the plane. Blair, who retired in 2017 after 30 years as an executive at FedEx FDX. Piete says it will be north of $500,000, but even if it’s $2 million - which would be close to the cost of the plane itself - he says a cargo operator would still come out ahead due to the operating cost savings and depreciation.Īutonomy holds great potential for cargo carriers, but it’s not clear that removing the pilot will deliver the kind of cost savings that Xwing is promising, says Mark S. Xwing hasn’t pinned down the cost of retrofitting a Grand Caravan with its system yet. A single ground controller will be able to oversee multiple flights in different locations, and they won’t need the same level of training as a pilot – control will be by a simple point and click mechanism. It’s claiming that its technology will reduce costs for a Caravan cargo delivery operation by 20% to 30%, and that it can solve staffing problems for an industry that’s long struggled to hang onto pilots, who see small cargo airlines as a first stepping stone toward the brass ring of flying passenger jets for the likes of Delta and American Airlines.
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The 3DMark06 edition is currently the world’s most popular benchmark and can be downloaded for free from the Futuremark website.Xwing plans for its autonomous cargo planes to be overseen by ground controllers, at least to start.
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3DMark software has been downloaded more than 45 million times. We’re delighted to be partnering with Futuremark to support GIGABYTE overclockers everywhere with this community building competition," said Tony Liao, GIGABYTE Marketing Director.Ĭontestants will be competing to see who can achieve the highest score with 3DMark06, a benchmark program from Futuremark that measures the 3D gaming performance capabilities of PCs. "This is the largest overclocking event of its type we’ve ever seen. Additional prizes will be awarded to second and third place runners-up, as well as two weekly lucky draw prizes for GIGABYTE motherboards given away just for entering.
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Grand prizes include a GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard, FSP Everest 800 Watt power supply, Maxcube Amoris 6010 Architectural Designed Gaming Case, GlacialTech X-Wing Notebook Cooling Pad, Gskill F3 Triple Channel DDR3 6GB memory module, and Enermax Apollo series 12cm Fan.
Prizes will be awarded for first to third place finishers for top 3DMark score and top CPU overclocking segments. The contest entry period will run from Aug 17th to Sep 13th.
Utilizing AMD and GIGABYTE hardware, contestants worldwide will compete in two segments for the overall "GIGABYTE Dragon" title within multiple prize award categories. Taipei, Taiwan, Aug– GIGABYTE Technology CO., LTD., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, is pleased to announce the worldwide "GIGABYTE Dragon Overclocking Contest 2009" which co-op with Futuremark ® Corporation.
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