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Old 20th Aug 2016, 21:14
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Sevarg, as regards to your autoland comment I've been in the flightdeck when we've had to throw away an autoland because it was about to put us in a very dangerous position. Not to mention the fact that the wind limitations on an autoland are somewhat restrictive if you plan to do any flying in a Northern European winter.

What is one of the first things to happen in very turbulent conditions or when you get multiple failures? Yep that's right, autopilot gives up and hands control back to you. That's where we are right now. We are light years away from a fully autonomous AI flightdeck. You can bleat that "it's the future" and yes it almost certainly is, just as the Sun will inevitably swallow up the earth one day. But that doesn't mean it needs to concern us at the moment.
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