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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Description
- History
- Background
- Development of autoland
- Civil aviation
- Emergency autoland
- Systems
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|200px|CAT IIIA landing
In aviation, autoland describes a system that fully automates the landing procedure of an aircraft's flight, with the flight crew supervising the process. Such systems enable airliners to land in weather conditions that would otherwise be dangerous or impossible to operate in.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “autoland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.