Timeline for How much different are civilian and military aircraft autopilots?
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| Jun 1, 2015 at 9:35 | vote | accept | anshabhi | ||
| May 29, 2015 at 16:20 | comment | added | Ralph J♦ | @Simon. Good point... There is just no civillian analog to those sorts of things... Modes, interfaces, and the whole architecture are just different with those sorts of missions - no civil counterpart. | |
| May 29, 2015 at 14:35 | comment | added | Simon | Caveat - only worked on 2 aircraft with terrain following and on both, the terrain following RADAR took over from the autopilot, overriding input commands to it. The reason is simply that you cannot tell an autopilot to maintain 300 feet but please climb a bit to avoid the hills. Bomb dropping was also controlled by systems other than the autopilot. Never seen an auto pilot that does more than speed, height, heading, vertical speed etc, | |
| May 29, 2015 at 13:18 | history | answered | Ralph J♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |