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Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability by stanski on Thursday October 31, 2019 @08:58AM (#21408189)
The marketing material suggests that weather and runway conditions are taken into account when selecting a landing site. So I would assume the answer to all of those is that it won't pick that runway.

And if the aircraft is low on fuel or isn't making enough power to make that runway... Well, the usual happens - a forced landing, aka a crash landing.

I don't think this is meant to be used as a cop-out by the pilot. "My engine quit! You deal with this, computer!"

Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability by cjrp on Friday November 01, 2019 @08:11AM (#21417902)
In the Vision Jet I believe low fuel / no suitable airport in range leads to automatic CAPS deployment by the autoland system