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Not an expert, but in military planes there are systems which kick in exactly when the plane is outside it's normal regime. Auto-GCAS Saves Unconscious F-16 Pi
by 21 8y ago
Not an expert, but in military planes there are systems which kick in exactly when the plane is outside it's normal regime.
Auto-GCAS Saves Unconscious F-16 Pilot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZGL7RQBVw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZGL7RQBVw
- dingaling 8y agoAnd for several decades Soviet fighters have had a save-me button for when the pilot loses spatial-awareness. It returns the aircraft to wings-level flight in a gentle climb. From memory it was introduced in the Sukhoi Su-7 in the late 1950s.
- 21 8y agoThere was serious talk about introducing this in civil planes too: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304791204576402083915084432 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304791204576402...
- 3pt14159 8y agoApologies if it is in the paywalled article, but what reason could they possibly have of deciding against its inclusion for civilian aircraft?
- reificator 8y agoPrice seems a likely candidate. Liability as well.
- ChuckMcM 8y agoGreat article on that here: https://fightersweep.com/3955/exactly-auto-gcas/ https://fightersweep.com/3955/exactly-auto-gcas/ It would be a fair question to wonder what GCAS does when a pilotless plane is heading into the ground. I'm going to guess that the folks who built GCAS have a test to see if there is a pilot in the plane or not. And in the absence of a pilot just augur in, but that is just a guess.
- viraptor 8y agoI wonder if they'd consider that. It's basically a system to activate in an emergency, so adding a complex process of detecting a pilot with possible errors into the mix seems risky. "Pilot on the plane" is not a trivial thing to determine.
- ChuckMcM 8y agoWell, I would guess that determining "Pilot on the plane" is pretty straight forward with an ejection seat. If I were designing it I would put a soldered in wire through the seat that completes the 'pilot seat is still in the plane' circuit. Pilot ejects, circuit opens because the seat yanks out the circuit when it leaves.
- viraptor 8y agoI agree that "pilot seat in the plane" is a much simpler problem. It's not the same as "pilot on the plane" though :-)