auto take off ?

[411A]

I have a copy of an illustration of the Flight System that suggests that the auto part of the takeoff was CWS and SAS only. The accompanying text reads:

" The Avionic Flight Control System (AFCS) provides manual or automatic modes of control throughout the total flight envelope from take-off to landing."

As stated, this is absolutely correct...and I know the folks that proved the concept, and completed the flight trials.

TriStar...so very far ahead of its time...younger folks would be simply amazed.
Or....not

[Mr Optimistic]

What a strange idea

As you are paying the guys up front, may as well get them to do some work surely: least they could do is take off.

[411A]

I have a copy of an illustration of the Flight System that suggests that the auto part of the takeoff was CWS and SAS only. The accompanying text reads:

" The Avionic Flight Control System (AFCS) provides manual or automatic modes of control throughout the total flight envelope from take-off to landing."

As stated, this is absolutely correct...and I know the folks that proved the concept, and completed the flight trials.

TriStar...so very far ahead of its time...younger folks would be simply amazed.
Or....not
TriStar, the first with dual/dual automatic approach/land capability...and still considered in a class of its own.
IE: the GOLD standard...of which others try...and just now, equal.
Thirty years later.

OMG, shock,horror.