"Sam Spade" wrote in message
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Mxsmanic wrote:


Even autopilots don't necessarily turn right on the mark. It depends on
how
sophisticated the autopilot is (obviously airliners can afford better
ones
than small private aircraft).

The master sim pilot speaks again.

As usual you don't know ****. Some of the newer light aircraft
autopilots, like the Garmin, are better than anything the airlines had for
many years.

But, the only autopilot you know is one that was written by software
engineers at Microsoft who don't know much more about real airplanes than
you do.

The Garmin autopilot only came out recently, but you are correct in that
others have had GPSS for quite some time. Most of the sophistication takes
place in the GPS, the FMS, and/or the GPSS rather than the autopilot itself.
With the advent of RNP the airlines have come up to speed significantly, but
there are still some carriers that don't even have GPS to this day, and many
airline crews won't accept RNAV approaches even though they have been
readily available and highly used by GA for years.

As usual, Anthony doesn't have a clue past what he can learn via MSFS.