This is such a strange comment section. Airplane autopilot is more like the crui...

nandomrumber · 2025-11-08T06:24:50 1762583090

Modern auto pilot and flight management computer combos can fly way-points and perform full Cat III auto lands.

I’m not suggesting the pilots are sitting there doing fuck-all, or that they are not necessarily.

I think what the automate ATC advocates are suggesting is to bring ATC in to the 21st century.

nradov · 2025-11-08T06:37:34 1762583854

Yes, and that's what the FAA NextGen program has been doing incrementally since 2003. There are probably ways to accelerate it but it seems like most of the "automate ATC advocates" are simply ignorant and haven't done their homework.

https://www.faa.gov/nextgen

nandomrumber · 2025-11-08T09:31:06 1762594266

Thanks for that link too. I wasn’t aware of the extent to which all those is already underway.

My knowledge is mostly limited to a casual watching of the aviation YouTube boffins.