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Originally Posted by TwitchKitty
Are carrier landings still strictly a hands-on procedure or can they land a plane on a carrier using computers only?
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The Automatic Carrier Landing System (ACLS) has been around for years. It has the capability for hands-off approaches and landings, but is seldom used in the fully automatic mode. More typically it is used to drive course and glidepath needles that the pilot tracks by hand.