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Maybe a coincidence, but Cirrus Aircraft announced their SafeReturn Emergency Autoland on their Vision Jet series today as well [0]. Looks pretty impressive.
by cyberferret 7y ago
Maybe a coincidence, but Cirrus Aircraft announced their SafeReturn Emergency Autoland on their Vision Jet series today as well [0]. Looks pretty impressive. A passenger can just press one button on the roof behind the pilot, and the aircraft will send a distress signal, re-route and autoland the aircraft at the nearest airport (including terrain and weather avoidance) and also convert all screens on board to inform the passengers how to use the radio for comms etc.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiGkzgfR_c0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiGkzgfR_c0
- rlpb 7y agoNot a coicidence: https://www.flyer.co.uk/garmin-launches-autoland-emergency-system/ https://www.flyer.co.uk/garmin-launches-autoland-emergency-s... Looks like Garmin coordinated the announcement.
- kejaed 7y agoThey are both using the Garmin Autonomi Autoland system.
- ianhawes 7y agoFWIW Cirrus also has a Cirrus Airframe Parachute System that is standard in all models.
- crooked-v 7y agoThe autoland system will even give passengers instructions on how to activate CAPS if there are no airports in range it knows how to land at.