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Old 9th Jul 2005, 14:02
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Phil Hudson
 
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Question B 757/767 Autopilot

Hi folks, i was wondering i some Boeing pilots could make a comment on this:

Quote from: http://letsroll911.org/ipw-web/bulle...pic.php?t=8729

The Boeing 757 and 767 are equipped with fully autonomous flight capability, they are the only two Boeing commuter aircraft capable of fully autonomous flight. They can be programmed to take off, fly to a destination and land, completely without a pilot at the controls.

They are intelligent planes, and have software limits pre set so that pilot error cannot cause passenger injury. Though they are physically capable of high g maneuvers, the software in their flight control systems prevents high g maneuvers from being performed via the cockpit controls. They are limited to approximately 1.5 g's, I repeat, one and one half g's. This is so that a pilot mistake cannot end up breaking grandma's neck.

No matter what the pilot wants, he cannot override this feature.
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