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Yeah but I thought takeoff and landing were the two parts that still required mostly manual control?

• haunter 4y ago
  Autoland has been a (mostly emergency) feature for years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland It might have been installed on the plane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ruFmgTpqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ruFmgTpqA https://www.easa.europa.eu/community/topics/emergency-autoland-0 https://www.easa.europa.eu/community/topics/emergency-autola...
  • outworlder 4y ago
    Autoland in a Caravan?!
• sandworm101 4y ago
  If the weather conditions are favorable, there isn't much needed. This would have been a very stable aircraft on its own. If the controls are setup properly in advance of the runway, it will descend and "land" with little input. In all likelihood they used a long approach, strait-in, to an airfield totally cleared of all other traffic. He would have had a strait shot in from many miles away. The important decision was to keep him following the coastline. A random aircraft over florida land would be a nightmare to locate and deal with on radar, even if the transponder was functional. Keeping him following the coastline would have made the fix much simpler.
• Sharlin 4y ago
  Not necessarily, but pilots usually fly those manually because a) they’re the exciting parts b) a certain number of manual takeoffs/landings per year are required to stay certified. (EDIT: This was about airliners, a Cessna is definitely 100% manual!)
• HWR_14 4y ago
  As far as I understand, takeoff and landing requires manual control in the same way, or for the same reason, Tesla autopilot requires hands on the wheel. It's mostly liability and trust issues.