An iPad app can land your plane if the engine quits

EndGadget ^ | 12/18/2014 | Steve Dent

[smokingfrog]

Does anyone have an iPad??

[SMGFan]

Surely, you can’t be serious.

[CFIIIMEIATP737]

I disagree with your assessment that large commercial aircraft have the aerodynamics of a brick. Two examples: the miracle on the Hudson and the Gimli glider.

[Swordmaker]

iPad app can land your small plane for you at the nearest airport . . . if your engine quits and it's close enough for a dead stick landing. I AM NOT A PILOT, so I can not evaluate this or even speak to it's efficacy. However, it looks good. — PING!

Apple iPad Emergency Auto-Pilot Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Swordmaker]

Surely, you can’t be serious.

Don't call me Shirley. And it's series. This could be Hugh.

[Swordmaker]

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.

No, you just haven't enough imagination to write the new version. Put a seven year old kid on board who wants to play Angry Birds with the iPad. . . and keeps switching Apps from the Xavion auto-pilot to Angry Birds, which somehow has accidentally been linked into the auto-Pilot, and every time he launches a bird, the plane arcs in a similar fashion! They take it back. . . and he always finds a way to snatch it back and play some more Birds. . . WHEE! Fun!

[stubernx98]

I am working on a video of the experience. I put a video on you tube MaXtanic films of how to do an annual on a 310(and how not to change the oil), also a bunch of trips to Oshkosh.

BTW, how do you post a pic on free Republic?

[b4its2late]

Interesting.

[itsahoot]

Whats this auto pilot of which you speak?

[Mr. Jeeves]

I disagree with your assessment that large commercial aircraft have the aerodynamics of a brick.

It's Air Force fighter jets - especially the old F-4 Phantom - that have the aerodynamics of a brick.

[freedumb2003]

Whats this auto pilot of which you speak

[antidisestablishment]

Just proving that even a brick can fly if you have big enough engins. ;)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney would have no emergency to deal with now with Jim Baccus konked out in the back.

I watch that movie when it's on just to get a look at that beauuuuutiful Beechcraft Model 18 twin engine aircraft.

[itsahoot]

[:-)

[RetiredTexasVet]

Hudson pilot was lucky he was over water and never got any altitude before he “crash landed” his brick.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Large commercial aircraft have the aerodynamics of a “large” brick when compared to a smaller aircraft such as the old F-4 Phantom or even worse F-111.

[PLMerite]

Just make sure to uncheck the 'kamikaze' option.

[wita]

I think you get a bingo!

My thought was, Ok, now I need to fly in only autopilot equipped GA aircraft. In some cases a difficult task since very few small aircraft are so equipped.

[CFIIIMEIATP737]

Glide ratios for various airliners:

Boeing B707-320 19.4
Boeing 767-200 19.0
Douglas DC-8 17.9
Boeing 747-100 17.7
Douglas DC-10 17.7
Airbus A320 17.0
Lockeed Tristar L1011 17.0
Douglas DC-9 (1966) 16.5
Boeing B727-200 16.4
Douglas DC-3 14.7

And you still they they are bricks?