An iPad app can land your plane if the engine quits

EndGadget ^ | 12/18/2014 | Steve Dent

[SeekAndFind]

[Star Traveler]

Just the thing for your iPad!

[Charles Martel]

When you consider the relative computing power needed aboard the Lunar Excursion Module, this isn’t so profound. Damned cool, though.

[Boogieman]

So, it can’t actually land the plane for you, it is just an enhancement to the autopilot to work better with no engine power?

[skinkinthegrass]

Thanks, for the post. S&F Avation ping!

[eyeamok]

I used my yoke mounted garmin 296 in my 172 for an ILS approach into BFL in IMC when my localizer quit on approach, worked just great. not much new here. that was 5 years ago

[W.]

Rut-roh!

J/K...

[PROCON]

I'm not a pilot but have flown in plenty of Army helicopters; a few of which had to crash land for various emergencies.

The auto-rotation procedure was a bumpy, abrupt landing, but no one died.

[GladesGuru]

Possibly just the thing to help searchers find the smoking hole in the ground.

[DanielRedfoot]

Haahahah!

I was thinking the same thing. I barely trust my I pad for proper directions

[Yo-Yo]

So what light general aviation aircraft is equipped with WiFi enabled autopilot?

[thackney]

[Sasparilla]

How about an app that pays your bills when you’re broke?

[nascarnation]

“Embezzler” for iPhone and Android.

Sounds like a huge seller!

[FirstFlaBn]

Well then, technology just killed any chance of a remake of It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney would have no emergency to deal with now with Jim Baccus konked out in the back. Maybe the NORKs could disable the WiFi in the remake.

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[bunkerhill7]

so that you can find a nearby farmer's field instead which he just plowed n furrowed

[RetiredTexasVet]

Please note that this app is only for small planes. Large commercial aircraft, when the engines quit, have the aerodynamics of a brick which will preclude safely landing; however, your iPad can quickly locate an “Oh Sh!t Prayer” in the religion or non-religion of your choice.

[stubernx98]

Well, I planted my Bonanza in a corn field taking off from Goodland KN, when my engine quit at 700 feet over the city. I had to turn down wind (25 Kt) to get to the field. Sharp left nose down turn, touched down at about 90 knots, gear & flaps up. No app would have helped. Just fly the plane. the engine quit because the T-1 mechanical fuel pump sheared a pin. Within the first 2 seconds a switched tanks and hit the boost. 20 seconds on the ground. Got help, a back hoe to lift plane, lowered wheels and got a police escort through town back to the airport.

[bunkerhill7]

My uncle`s Piper Cub quit right after takeoff. He glided it back but wasn`t gonna make the runway. The fields were furrowed for miles around. So he gently landed it on the top of a tall tree and climbed down.