"The first real-world Autoland deployment complicated Garmin’s assumptions about how conscious pilots would interact with the system."
Head reports Garmin executive Phil Straub acknowledging that the December 2025 deployment provided lessons about situations involving conscious pilots supervising Emergency Autoland. The original design had primarily anticipated incapacitated crew members and non-pilot passengers. This case exposed practical human-machine interaction questions that were less central to the original certification assumptions.
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