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AINsight: Genav Automation Comes of Age
Garmin Autoland is brilliantly engineered and demonstrates advancements in avionics, autonomous flight, sensor, and servo technologies.

In the 1990s, fourth-generation airliners introduced fly-by-wire (FBW) technologies with active flight envelope protections. The impact on airline safety was impressive—FBW has reduced the number of loss of control in-flight (LOC-I) accidents by 75 percent and cut the overall accident rate to 0.1 accidents per million flights.

Today, nearly all newly certified air transport and business aviation aircraft employ some form of these technologies. In general aviation, manufacturers are rapidly embracing concepts such as envelope protection in the latest turboprop singles and light jets.

Stuart “Kipp” Lau
Contributor - Safety
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Pilot, safety expert, consultant, and aviation journalist Stuart “Kipp” Lau writes about flight safety and airmanship for AIN.

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