I’m in the cockpit of a modified Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, descending from an altitude of about 4,000 feet down to California’s Yolo County Airport, just west of Sacramento. Seated to my left, the pilot is glancing over his landing checklist but keeps his hands off the controls. The yoke turns and presses forward as we prepare for the landing, all while the pilot’s hands are resting in his lap—almost as if a ghost has taken control of the aircraft.
But there are no ghosts at the helm of this airplane. Rather, it is being flown by Xwing’s trademarked “Superpilot,” a fully autonomous flight system that Xwing installed on this otherwise ordinary Cessna aircraft. The Superpilot is capable of taking off, landing, and taxiing without any pilot intervention.
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