"The whole buildout and certification of Autoland rested on the FAA’s premise that pilots would be incapacitated and unable to operate the aircraft."
Elan Head's investigation in The Air Current reconstructs Garmin's certification discussions through interviews with Garmin aviation executive Phil Straub and responses from the FAA. The safety case assumed an emergency in which pilots could no longer operate the aircraft. This assumption shaped both the certification approach and the division of work between the machine and its human occupants.
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