rpmcb | 13 years ago | on: Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone
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Yes, most (if not all) modern airliners have a radar dish in the nose of the aircraft. If you wanted to mess with this, you'd have to spoof radar echoes. Not something you can do from an android phone for sure.
"And does the autopilot not take weather into account?"
No, not in the slightest. Pilots adjust autopilot settings to account for weather. It is not automatic.