Ironic to see this considering planes could land and takeoff by themselves since 60's and the only reason why it's not all of them that can do this is because of greed.
You're very much uninformed on what is involved in having AUTOLAND (yes, capitalization was part of the name) happening, or automated takeoff.
Reality is that unless you're landing at minority of airports in the world, you can't use automated landing, and takeoff isn't automated until at least you pass into a SID route or into normal climb.
And it's not just "greed" - deploying and maintaining setup to support automated landing (ILS Class 3b with extensions and DME, among others) is non-trivial technically and to do safely can require over a year of testing.
Aircraft autopilots are also simply said very dumb PIDs 99% of the time.
P.S. L-1011 wasn't even the first plane with AUTOLAND equipped, that goes to Trident 2E
p_l|1 year ago
Reality is that unless you're landing at minority of airports in the world, you can't use automated landing, and takeoff isn't automated until at least you pass into a SID route or into normal climb.
And it's not just "greed" - deploying and maintaining setup to support automated landing (ILS Class 3b with extensions and DME, among others) is non-trivial technically and to do safely can require over a year of testing.
Aircraft autopilots are also simply said very dumb PIDs 99% of the time.
P.S. L-1011 wasn't even the first plane with AUTOLAND equipped, that goes to Trident 2E
gruez|1 year ago
???
Yotsugi|1 year ago