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automated. Modern aircraft are generally flown by a computer autopilot
that
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its position using motion sensors and dead reckoning, corrected as necessary by GPS.
Software systems are also used to land commercial aircraft.
In a recent survey of airline pilots, those operating Boeing 777s reported that they spent just seven
minutes
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piloting their planes in a typical flight. Pilots operating Airbus planes spent half that
time.
And commercial planes are becoming smarter all the time. “An Airbus airliner knows enough not to
fly into
a mountain,” said David Mindell, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology aeronautics and
astronautics professor. “It has a
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system that tells a pilot. But it doesn’t take over.”
Such a system could take over, if permitted. Already, the Pentagon has
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