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Aircraft Incidents

Aircraft Incidents

#61
Andreos1
Andreos1
RE: Aircraft Incidents
(09 Nov 2018, 9:36 pm)James101 wrote I don’t have the foggiest idea of how aircraft work, but why is setting auto pilot to 0ft even possible?

I've no idea! 
Tried making sense of this and it appears it is possible to use it during landing. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot

Sure someone will know the reasons. Sure we have had a pilot or two on here in the past.
'Illegitimis non carborundum'
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#62
8222
8222
RE: Aircraft Incidents
(09 Nov 2018, 11:29 pm)Andreos1 wrote I've no idea! 
Tried making sense of this and it appears it is possible to use it during landing. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot

Sure someone will know the reasons. Sure we have had a pilot or two on here in the past.

I'm certain you can use autopilot to land. AFAIK Japanese Airlines have come into a lot of controversy because of this - such as the Asiana crash in SFO. Apparently it's the pilot culture over there.

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