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All do have an artificial horizon. Your attitude indicator has that. Making autopilot mandatory would make a huge amount of GA pilots unable to fly due to cos
by mattmaroon 6y ago
All do have an artificial horizon. Your attitude indicator has that.
Making autopilot mandatory would make a huge amount of GA pilots unable to fly due to cost. And I’m not sure It would help. JFK JR’s plane had one. (level 5 is not even available for GA, though auto land just launched, but it would be six figures. )
The problem is you don’t know when you’re spinning in the first place without visual reference. Pilots get disoriented (the g force from the spin can feel a lot like normal gravity) and get overwhelmed.
That particular incident was an overly confident, poorly skilled pilot doing something risky that most pilots simply wouldn’t