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The most nervous moments for me is during airplane landing when I'm concerned if the plane would just stall or hit the concrete so hard. So let me take this opportunity to understand it.
How many commercial airliners use manual and automatic landing technology (in terms of percentage)?
For manual. During landing the nose is pointed up, so how can the pilot sees the ground ahead? Do they just guess how many distances to the ground?
Or do they depend on altimeter? Are these so sensitive it can differentiate between 2 meters or 3 meters? Does it work by measuring the force of gravity or air pressure?
For automatic landing, the angle and descent speed is decided by computers? I remember in Die Hard 3, the height was modified by computer and it crash landed. I can remember the part during every landing giving me some kind of landing phobia.
How many commercial airliners use manual and automatic landing technology (in terms of percentage)?
For manual. During landing the nose is pointed up, so how can the pilot sees the ground ahead? Do they just guess how many distances to the ground?
Or do they depend on altimeter? Are these so sensitive it can differentiate between 2 meters or 3 meters? Does it work by measuring the force of gravity or air pressure?
For automatic landing, the angle and descent speed is decided by computers? I remember in Die Hard 3, the height was modified by computer and it crash landed. I can remember the part during every landing giving me some kind of landing phobia.
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