Category 3 Instrument Landing Systems and approaches are are full AutoLand and have been around for decades. Requires special equipment in the aircraft and special pilot certification.
73 ----- Jim Walls - K6CCC [email protected] Commercial Pilot Airplane Single Engine Land Instrument Airplane (not certified for Cat 3 landings) -----Original Message----- From: "Cal Frye via EV" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 9, 2018 05:13 To: "Peri Hartman" <[email protected]>, "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]> Cc: "Cal Frye" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EVDL] more: EVcrash Tesla-X ... Mt_View-CA (v) Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > I'm sure there's much more. Great technology, but "autopilot" is > easily misinterpreted to mean autonomous. Even in aviation, > "autopilot" is not autonomous. You still need to monitor the gages, > watch the air space for other air traffic, and in particular, handle > landing. I believe Boeing has been working on landings, but relying on precise GPS rather than stripes on the landing strip. -- Cal Frye, www.calfrye.com "Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." -- Richard Bach, American writer. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5366 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180409/dfcfca0d/attachment.bin> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
