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There is no inconsistency. The first quote is meant to highlight that commercial planes have autopilot while e.g. Cessnas do not. The second quote emphasizes
by bigyikes 2y ago
There is no inconsistency.
The first quote is meant to highlight that commercial planes have autopilot while e.g. Cessnas do not.
The second quote emphasizes the importance of training despite autopilot.
There is no inconsistency in pointing out that commercial planes have auto pilot while acknowledging that it would be nice for non-commercial planes to also have auto pilot even though training is important.
- sokoloff 2y agoMost GA aircraft used for travel have autopilots. Even most flight school aircraft used for IFR training have them, at least in my experience in the northeast.
- floam 2y agoGA planes can’t land themselves, the autopilot they share in common is more like cruise control.
- wkat4242 2y agoYou can buy a full flight director autopilot on a G1000 Cessna 172. The main reason it can't fully land itself is the lack of autothrottle and FADEC. But some GA planes do have even that. For example the Cirrus Vision (very light jet) is also a GA aircraft and has an emergency function where a passenger can trigger an emergency landing at the closest airport (as well as having a rescue parachute too)