Raises an interesting question of which is safer: ILS automated landing with pilots on standby to take over, or pilots manually landing guided by ILS. On one h

Raises an interesting question of which is safer: ILS automated landing with pilots on standby to take over, or pilots manually landing guided by ILS. On one hand, a fully automated landing leaves less room for human error (you can still instruct the plane to land in the wrong place), but you're more reliant on things working as they should. If the automated systems fail for any reason, you've got pilots who are less practised at landings needing to take over at a moment's notice I also suspect that a pilot making a active landing would react quicker to things than shouldn't happen (and thus may not be picked up by an automated system), such as a ground plane being in the wrong place, or some sort of mechanical failure.