Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability
by FabHK on Thursday October 31, 2019 @12:37PM
(#21410667)
> they'd call that tower and give it heads up it has got an incoming emergency
No need:
> [Autoland] would update and broadcast that message every 30 seconds—listening to make sure that it didn’t transmit over any other radio calls. Once near the Class D airspace of the tower, it would have changed one of the radios to the tower frequency and kept the other on the emergency frequency.
Then, once landed, it will brake, and then broadcast that the runway is inop due to airplane on the runway.
No need:
> [Autoland] would update and broadcast that message every 30 seconds—listening to make sure that it didn’t transmit over any other radio calls. Once near the Class D airspace of the tower, it would have changed one of the radios to the tower frequency and kept the other on the emergency frequency.
Then, once landed, it will brake, and then broadcast that the runway is inop due to airplane on the runway.
Quite amazing.
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