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Introducing Safe Return Emergency Autoland

Cirrus · demo · Watch on YouTube

Aviation & aerospace engineering

What it is

Cirrus introduces Safe Return, an emergency autoland system for its Vision Jet. A passenger presses a single button and the aircraft squawks emergency, reroutes and lands itself.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as a real example of certified emergency autoland, used in debates about autonomy and pilotless aircraft.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Looks pretty impressive.”

    Cirrus emergency autoland: one button reroutes and lands the aircraft.

    cyberferret, 2019-10 · Recommendation · in “Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability”

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Topics: cirrus, vision jet, garmin, autoland, general aviation, autonomy

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