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> Other than communicating wiht traffic control and raising/lowering the flaps and gear (none of which are absolutely necessary), a modern airliner can take off
by CPLX 8y ago
> Other than communicating wiht traffic control and raising/lowering the flaps and gear (none of which are absolutely necessary), a modern airliner can take off, cruise and land entirely on its own, with no human intervention.
Yeah no. This is obvious patent nonsense.
Relevant: I am a licensed pilot
- Retric 8y agoA single operator handles multiple military drones. A large part of this is they can takeoff and fly to a specific location, and or land from a specific location on their own. Their are many reasons a 747 is not setup to do this is, but it’s not technology that difficult. Ex: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland
- danielvf 8y agoJust because other aircraft can to this today does not mean "a modern airliner can". No modern airliner currently has the capability to make remote controlled flights.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoHm. Autopilots have been able to fly the whole plane for decades, from runway to runway. They're not permitted for whatever reason; there has to be a pilot in the seat. But honestly for most flights of airliners (not even just modern ones) the autopilot is in control almost all of the time. Can they be remotely operated? I'm thinking putting a plane into autopilot has to be a remote operation by now. Its so trivial, how can they have left that out?
- mrguyorama 8y agoThey can't and don't fly runway to runway by themselves because even the smallest problem/perturbation/deviation from the norm knocks the plane out of the higher levels of automation and requires a human to intervene. The automation is great at making small adjustments to keep a plane flying stable, but give it a complicated, unknown airframe and it would fail miserably
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoCatIIIb can surely land, even with fog or other perturbations
- mrguyorama 8y agoFog yes, but one of the three redundant guidance units malfunctioning? No. In fact, pretty much any hardware problem or malfunction will prohibit CatIIIb landing, which is common in current aviation. Craft will regularly fly with "minor" hardware or sensors in an inop status. Basically to let the plane land itself, first the stars have to align
- snowwrestler 8y agoMilitary drones sometimes fail to do these things correctly, but it doesn't really matter because they are drones.
- Retric 8y agoSo do manned military aircraft. The military does a crazy amount of flying so you need relative rates for similarly refined systems* to really compare them. * AKA older designs have better understood failure modes.