Autopilot
Tags: Aircraft, FAA Pilot's Handbook, Systems
Autopilot. An automatic flight control system which keeps an aircraft in level flight or on a set course.
Autopilot: A mode of an automatic flight control system which controls primary flight controls to meet specific mission objectives, such as maintain a heading or altitude.
No Autopilot on Missed
An autopilot may fly the aircraft quite a while before a system failure becomes apparent to the pilot. A pilot who continually relies on the autopilot is going to lack proficiency in hand flying.
Autopilot - A would-be airplane pilot who flunked his checkride.
Bail Out - Dipping the water out of the cabin after a heavy rainstorm..
Autopilot - System used to automatically guide aircraft.
APU
Auxiliary Power Unit - Turbine powered source of electrical generation, cabin heating/cooling and hydraulic pressure commonly used by aircraft on the ground.
This autopilot used three simultaneous processing channels each giving a physical output.
AFDS - Autopilot and flight director system.
AFI - assistant flying instructor. Also AFIC, assistant flying instructor course, FIC, flying instructor course.
AUTOMATIC PILOT (AUTOPILOT) - A gyroscopically stabilized system maintaining an aircraft in level flight at predetermined heading and altitude.
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We hope that the autopilot runs out of pull-back authority before it causes the wings to stall. In either case, the airplane is going to descend below the glideslope.
AFDS - Autopilot flight director system.
AFIS - Automated flight information system (AlliedSignal)
AHRS - Attitude-heading reference system.
AI - Altitude indicator ...
It is an advanced autopilot.
AFDS: Autopilot and Flight Director System
AGL: Above Ground Level
AIRMET: Aircraft's Meteorological Information.
Shortly after I contacted the departure control, I engaged the autopilot. I was climbing through 600 feet when the flight director bar was deflected rapidly upwards.
The smart pilot uses the autopilot. The G1000's GFC 700 offers both rate of climb (VS) as well as constant-speed (FLC) climbs and descents. When in turbulence, consider using the FLC option for a constant-airspeed climb or, especially, descent.
Suddenly, I felt the ailerons turn by themselves and thought, "Oh no, the autopilot has taken over," which came as quite a surprise because we didn't have an autopilot.
Avionics options available for the C1 Eclipse include an S-Tec Thirty two-axis autopilot, a slaved horizontal situation indicator, and a Garmin GNS 420, a slightly scaled-down and less expensive version of the Garmin GNS 430.
AVIONICS The electronic control systems airplanes use for flight such as communications, autopilots, and navigation.
BLOCK RATES A lower 'contract rate' for scheduling significant amounts of charter time in advance on a prearranged agreement.
An electromechanical system installed to improve the aerodynamic stability of an aircraft. An AFCS cannot program the aircraft's flight as does a conventional autopilot.
checking the gas that our hands make the motions, but, if we're distracted, we're doing everything on autopilot and our brain isn't attaching any importance to what we do: we pull the dip stick, it says 6 quarts, ...
Flight director indicator (FDI). One of the major components of a flight director system, it provides steering commands that the pilot (or the autopilot, if coupled) follows.
You can see in this picture that this aircraft has a much bigger instrument panel than a VFR JetRanger. This aircraft is equipped about as well as they come: dual attitude indicators, HSI, RMI, 3 axis autopilot, radar altimeter, DME, ...
There are a lot of parts of an aircraft that will eventually be in bad condition or simply become obsolete that will need to be replaced during the life span of the aircraft. Some of these aircraft parts include audio panels, autopilots, HF radios, ...
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