i want to learn how to fly an airplane.
[{"role": "system", "content": "An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls. While other aircrew members such as navigators or flight engineers are also considered aviators, because they are involved in operating the aircraft's navigation and engine systems. Other aircrew members such as flight attendants, mechanics and ground crew, are not classified as aviators. In recognition of the pilots' qualifications and responsibilities, most militaries and many airlines worldwide award aviator badges to their pilots, and this includes naval aviators. The first recorded use of the term \"aviator\" (\"aviateur\" in French) was in 1887, as a variation of \"aviation\", from the Latin \"avis\" (meaning \"bird\"), coined in 1863 by G. de la Landelle in \"Aviation Ou Navigation A\u00e9rienne\" (\"Aviation or Air Navigation\"). The term aviatrix (\"aviatrice\" in French), now archaic, was formerly used for a female aviator. These terms were used more in the early days of aviation, when airplanes were extremely rare, and connoted bravery and adventure. For example, a 1905 reference work described the Wright brothers' first airplane: \"The weight, including the body of the aviator, is a little more than 700 pounds\".\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "hi; nice to meet you.  being an aircraft pilot, i would imagine, would be a real interesting job."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I agree! Being a pilot would be interesting but I'm sure there's a lot to learn since you have to operate all the flight controls."}, {"role": "user", "content": "no doubt about that.  i once read that these days the pilot more or less depends on computers/technology and basically doesn't have to do as much as in \"the old days.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes. I like to call that \"auto-pilot\" but the technical name is Fly-by-wire (FBW). It replaces the manual flight controls with an electronic interface."}, {"role": "user", "content": "wow it sounds like you know quite a lot about this.  do all flights have a pilot and a co-pilot?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I believe that all commercial flights must have both a pilot and co-pilot. I don't know about military flights, private or business flights."}, {"role": "user", "content": "many people are afraid to fly.  do you know if it's true that it's actually a safer form of transportation than driving a car?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In terms of the likelihood or percentage of getting into an accident, air travel is safer than car. However, people travel by car much more frquently than by air."}]