In rather excellent news, we're now at the point where a light aircraft can detect its pilot being incapacitated and successfully land and then shut the engines off fully automatically. My hat is off to the Garmin engineers who built this system.
https://avbrief.com/autoland-saves-king-air-everyone-reported-safe
@andrew truly amazing stuff, although I feel for any air traffic controller who hears the automated message coming in. I’m still unclear if it can handle ATC comms or if it just screams over the relevant frequencies that it’s landing on 27L and everyone should get out of the way.
@andrew just watched the ATC recording, as ever I am in awe of those guys. Barely seemed to be breaking a sweat at the prospect of a plane without a concious pilot landing in the wrong direction on his runway.
@jon I found the ATC recording incredibly eerie - that automated voice is all they get and yet it all functions.
(That said, there are procedures for when an aircraft has no radio and you can't talk to them, which is close to what this does)
