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Examining over 100 years of flight automation and the history of the autopilot

Aerotime

This permitted the Trident to be guided automatically to an airfield, approach the runway, flare, touchdown, and then roll out from the landing runway without a pilot interfering with the controls. The process of flight can be divided into seven crucial stages – taxi, take-off, climb, cruise, descent, approach, and landing phases.

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How Tech Made the Rotax a Monster

Plane and Pilot

Specifically, Rotaxs approach to putting 160 hp to the prop flange is fundamentally different from Lycomings. Liquid cooling means so-called shock cooling on descent just isnt a thing. And what Rotax doesnt want to buy, it can create in house. The familiar great-gray aero engine uses displacement, all 319.8

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North to the Valley

Gary's Flight Journal

We launched for AVP around 9am VFR, picking up flight following with Dover approach. As we s as approached Allentown I gave some thought to opening up the IFR plan but held off. I crossed the last ridge that was dotted with wind turbines and started my descent once handed off to the tower.