Spinoff. Auto-Land from Garmin

What thread is this spinning off from?

I saw that a while back; pretty cool.

It would help if you end up in an Airport 1975 type scenario.

Works great in a pilot incapacitation scenario. Lose an engine or run out of gas and it ain’t helping.

The cirrus vision jet has it and their explanation was that the parachute is for a sick plane/healthy pilot and the auto land is for a sick pilot/healthy plane.

The prerequisite for the auto land is auto throttle. That really is only applicable in turbine engines where you don’t have mixture as well. Some of the newer pistons have full fadec controls that handle that as well but no auto throttle on them yet. The diamond DA62 comes to mind first. It uses a pair of Mercedes engines and sips fuel better than most singles.

Man I could've used this a few months back when I got deathly ill on flight out in the middle of fricking Timbuktu(literally).

After vomiting a couple times and two trips to the back of the plane to piss out of my a-hole into the camper shitter, which is really just a bucket with a lid, I made the decision to return to home base a few hours early. I had a really weak copilot with me. So weak in fact that the company had already decided to fire him but were letting him finish out his deployment because we're so shorthanded on pilots.

So I turned the plane back and gave him the controls and asked if he could handle it. He said sure and I didn't think it would be a problem. We had plenty of gas and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. About 60 miles from the airport I look up at the instruments and realize we haven't started our decent yet. I was like hey dude do you want to start down or what? He said "Oh, I was waiting for you to check in with ATC" Mind you I'm pretty fricking bad off at this point.

We finally get to the final approach fix for the runway and I realize I hadn't heard if we'd been cleared for the approach yet so I ask the copilot if we are holding or shooting the approach to which he replies "uhhhhh." So I get clearance to hold and program it into the GPS. We do a lap or two of me vomitting in a walmart bag until cleared for the approach. He pushes some button, not really sure which, to start the approach but it doesn't work. At this point I'm yelling at him while pointing at the runway saying "There's the fricking runway dude, just go there. Jesus fricking Christ"

He finally kicks off the autopilot and is either low or high, slow or fast all the way down until I eventually took the controls from him to land the plane.


Needless to say he never flew for my company again.


ETA: TL/DR I know

Sounds like he could be a mod here.

(I keed, I keed...)