BERLIN—A glitch that caused a YFQ-42 Dark Merlin aircraft to crash in April came from a newly designed, high-performance autopilot developed for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) prototype, ...
In this video, you'll learn how the autopilot works in aircraft, including whether it is capable of flying the plane and how ...
It’s a cliché in movies that whenever an airplane’s pilots are incapacitated, some distraught crew member queries the self-loading freight if any of them know how to fly a plane. For small airplanes ...
Autopilots are crucial for single-pilot IFR flight, enhancing workload management and safety, but over-reliance creates a critical vulnerability if they fail in Instrument Meteorological Conditions ...
The article compares two new high-end digital autopilots, the S-TEC 3100 and Garmin GFC 600, specifically evaluating their performance in a Cessna 340. Both autopilots offer similar core capabilities, ...
One Russian jet made several passes in front of the RAF aircraft, getting within six meters of its nose.