Smaller airports to have autopilot landings soon

Updated:6 years, 3 months ago

New Delhi, July 06 (ANI): Not only major airports but even smaller airports can now have automatic landings for aircraft. This comes after researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TU Braunschweig demonstrated a complete automatic landing with vision assisted navigation that functions properly without the need for ground-based systems. The autopilot uses GPS signals to navigate. Though, GPS receiver in the aircraft can’t always reliably detect interferences as signals are susceptible to measurement inaccuracies. As a result, current GPS approach procedures require the pilots to take over control at an altitude of no less than 60 meters and land the aircraft manually. In order to make automatic landings possible, additional functions were integrated in the software. The team of researchers tested it later in May and were able to watch as the research aircraft made a completely automatic landing at the Diamond Aircraft airfield. Test pilot Thomas Wimmer is completely convinced by the landing system.

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Smaller airports to have autopilot landings soon

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