System that fully or partially automates the landing operation of aircraft.
Questions tagged [autoland]
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Can a non-pilot realistically land a commercial airliner?
It's a situation that often played out in the movies - the pilots are incapacitated, and the person in the cockpit is looking at all of those instruments and controls, wondering what to do with them.
How much of a chance would this person…
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Why did the pilot inform ATC that he is going to autoland?
I was listening to ATC and I heard the pilot say that they are going to autoland. What is the purpose of providing this info to ATC?
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Final 200 feet under autoland
How does Autoland work below decision height (200 ft)? Ie, what guides the plane until the radar altimeter notes the jet is at the right height to begin to flare? I've been searching the internet, and it looks like the plane simply holds its…
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Autothrottle's control target during autoland
I read some pilots manual which indicates that the AT retard mode will be active at 30feet AGL to retract the throttle to idle, but the flare mode starts from 50 feet AGL? Should the throttle to be retracted to idle before flare? If not what is auto…
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How the aircraft sense the sink rate during autoland?
Radio altimeter is required for autoland, and the target of autoland flare mode is to reduce the sink rate to an acceptable sink rate at touch down， then how the sink rate is computed by the radio altimeter since radio altimeter just provides the…
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