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Old 27th September 2001 | 20:21
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Bally Heck
 
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The problem with this idea is that on non fly by wire aircraft, ie. the majority of aircraft flying in the world today, It is easy to overide the autopilot by operating the manual flight controls. Even if it is technically possible, it would require the mass replacement of the flight control systems of most of the worlds aircraft = far too expensive.
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