Jaybird180
Member
I know that there are several of you that enjoy hand flying and we all get enjoyment from the experience.
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of flying behind a Garmin Perspective SR22 and it is very nice indeed. We turned on the AP approx 200 AGL during the climb and played with several modes, display options, data feeds, (Warning Will Robinson - INFORMATION OVERLOAD!) etc
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The SR22 is a very stable ship, but the AP added a measure of finesse to the manipulation of the controls. With the Garmin Perspective, there was enough information to make intelligent, well informed decisions 10 minutes ahead of the airplane (ie descending under Bravo balanced against preventing an ear busting vertical descent rate); the types of things that very experience PILOTS do on a subconscious level.
Years ago, IBM set out to prove that a computer can outthink a human in Chess, which spawned the design of Deep Blue. It wasn't successful initially, but afterward it was shown that computers can outplay human GrandMasters (Note: this claim is still disputed). Do you think that APs have evolved to where they outfly an experienced aviator? Would a human be able to match the precision and finesse of AP flying?
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of flying behind a Garmin Perspective SR22 and it is very nice indeed. We turned on the AP approx 200 AGL during the climb and played with several modes, display options, data feeds, (Warning Will Robinson - INFORMATION OVERLOAD!) etc
.The SR22 is a very stable ship, but the AP added a measure of finesse to the manipulation of the controls. With the Garmin Perspective, there was enough information to make intelligent, well informed decisions 10 minutes ahead of the airplane (ie descending under Bravo balanced against preventing an ear busting vertical descent rate); the types of things that very experience PILOTS do on a subconscious level.
Years ago, IBM set out to prove that a computer can outthink a human in Chess, which spawned the design of Deep Blue. It wasn't successful initially, but afterward it was shown that computers can outplay human GrandMasters (Note: this claim is still disputed). Do you think that APs have evolved to where they outfly an experienced aviator? Would a human be able to match the precision and finesse of AP flying?
