Thousands of airports use area navigation (RNAV) systems that rely on GPS/GNSS to guide aircraft approaches. Autopilot and ...

With the timelines and mechanisms behind aircraft autopilot and car cruise control ... but autopilot uses it to chart a course while ACC systems use GPS-connected proximity sensors or cameras ...

From GPS enabled autopilot systems flown via two way telemetry links ... gyros can be used to measure pitch and roll of an aircraft. A great comparison of gyros and accelerometers is presented ...

A UK aircraft has tested ground-breaking quantum technology that could pave the way for an unjammable back-up for GPS navigation systems. The government, which helped fund the research ...

The robot pilot, known as PIBOT, uses both AI and robotics technology to fly the airplane without altering the aircraft. Unlike a normal autopilot system, this one can be fed the aircraft’s ...

Russia’s Yakovlev and electronic systems specialist KRET have completed development of the autopilot and autothrust ... will next be installed on an aircraft for flight and certification tests.

The new development will be implemented as part of an integrated management system (ACS). The algorithms created are fully consistent with those implemented on modern passenger aircraft, and will ...

Tartu Airport relies solely on GPS, unlike most larger airports which have alternative navigation systems that allow aircraft to land even if the signal is lost. Juho Sinkkonen, Finnair's vice ...