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To: Chainmail

Sorry,you are incorrect. Fully autonomous flight is reserved for toys and some weapon systems. The current state of the art requires thousands of decisions and action for an automated airliner to fly from one place to another. There is no such thing as a computer managed airliner. There are highly integrated computer systems in airliners, but a pilot controls them all.


34 posted on 07/08/2014 9:44:06 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat
"Sorry,you are incorrect. "

Well you should be sorry.. Modern aircraft are flown on autopilot throughout near the whole flight regime. There have also been autolanding systems in effect since the Lockheed L1011 in the early '70s.

The loss of that Air France flight over the Atlantic was due to the pitot tubes failing, which caused the autopilot to read the flight situation incorrectly and when the pilots took over, they made very poor decisions and destroyed the airplane and everyone in it.

The "thousands of decisions" pilots make are inputting waypoints into the navigation system, various radio calls when required, and whether their coffee should have cream and sugar or not.

Wasn't there a recent transatlantic flight where the flight crew fell asleep through most of it? Proves my point, doesn't it?

44 posted on 07/08/2014 11:32:28 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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