I recently took a refresher class that is required to maintain my privileges as an FAA-certificated flight instructor. I filled out the multiple-guess quiz and then fed the questions to ChatGPT, which was in 100 percent agreement with me and both of us were in 100 percent agreement with the flight school that offers the online program.
ChatGPT was able to figure out what “TAA” stood for:
ChatGPT gave an erudite explanation of the rules and regulations put in place to protect America’s most valuable humans:
(Why not similar measures to protect San Francisco and Palo Alto? If someone were to attack OpenAI with a Cessna 172 that could have a devastating effect on the U.S.)
ChatGPT figured out from context what “PD” stood for, despite this not being a common term in conversations among pilots:
(We’ll eventually find out if an altitude deviation by the Black Hawk pilots contributed to the Reagan National Airport Black Hawk-CRJ crash.)
Based on the above, I wonder if it is time to eliminate ground instruction by humans. ChatGPT knows the regulations better than any human. There is so much good open-access tutorial content out there on aviation that ChatGPT has effortlessly become as good as the very best human CFI at explaining aviation.
ChatGPT even did a good job explaining P-Factor:
my follow-up…
“If someone were to attack OpenAI with a Cessna 172 that could have a devastating effect on the U.S.”
Was this post written by an AI?
If openAI were to vanish from the earth tomorrow, would anyone notice it? What is it producing besides half-finished crap?