Mxsmanic wrote:
Stephen! writes:

You haven't lived until you've piloted an SEL over the mountains in solid
IMC without an autopilot. I logged 2 hours IMC in a 182 over Montana a few
weeks ago. That was a LOT of fun!

But a standard autopilot does what you tell it to. You turn it on and off
yourself, and you tell it what heading to hold, what altitude to maintain,
when to level the wings, and so on. That's very different from a computer
that independently decides when you need "help" and acts on its own initiative
because it thinks you are "out of control."

In solid IMC over mountains, you need precise situational awareness. You don't
have that if a computer is making decisions behind your back.

True in general but this has nothing whatsoever to do with the system under
discussion.

It's a bit like having a silent copilot who does things whenever he deems them
appropriate without any interaction or instructions from you first. Does that
really enhance safety?

It depends on how smart that silent copilot is.

The world is not black/white, one/zero, yes/no, all/nothing and once that
fact sinks in you might have a better understanding of it.


--
Jim Pennino

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