An emergency descent, a sudden loss of cabin pressure and a cockpit crew in distress ended not in disaster but in a fully automated landing at a Colorado airport, marking what aviation officials ...

Autopilots are crucial for single-pilot IFR flight, enhancing workload management and safety, but over-reliance creates a critical vulnerability if they fail in Instrument Meteorological Conditions ...

It’s a cliché in movies that whenever an airplane’s pilots are incapacitated, some distraught crew member queries the self-loading freight if any of them know how to fly a plane. For small airplanes ...

The article compares two new high-end digital autopilots, the S-TEC 3100 and Garmin GFC 600, specifically evaluating their performance in a Cessna 340. Both autopilots offer similar core capabilities, ...