Airbus A350-1000 Features Automated Rapid-Descent Capability

Regarding lower traffic, the chance of hitting someone below you would be slim. Compared with a complete hull loss it’s worth the risk. I’d be more concerned with terrain.

If your cellphone is such a distraction, turn it off!

Going the Tesla way!Great feature and if its not too difficult in retro fitting this feature into the avionics of existing aircraft it will be a buck well spent.

Gulfstream has had this for years. Works extremely well when required. Speaking of wearing a mask at altitude, where is the chart that shows O2 usage on long haul flights?

What about the traffic below.

lot´s of automation........and lot´s of "decisions" taken away from pilots. That cannot lead aviation to a safer path...on the contrary.

Coming closer to a pilot and a dog in the cockpit.

Is there an acronym in place? I propose ARDEC.

Citation X too. 90’s technology.

I concur with many posts I have read here. With automated rapid descent how can a pilot know about lower level traffic?

If accompanied by an abrupt turn to starboard that would alert ATC, who would alert other traffic; although the system does have the ATC alert, as well.
I’d like to see this on smaller pressurized aircraft, as it could have potentially saved the life of Payne Stewart other passengers and crew when they experienced hypoxia in their aircraft.

unnecessary if one pilot wears a mask at altitude. This is a solution in search of a problem.

Deploy the drogue 'chute and hope for a splash down.

If this system fails, are the pilots REALLY trained to know what to do?