Listings in Auto Flight

Autopilot: An autopilot is a system used to control the path of an aircraft, marine craft, or spacecraft without requiring constant manual control by a human operator. Autopilots do not replace human operators. Instead, the autopilot assists the operator's control of the vehicle, allowing the operator to focus on broader aspects of operations

Auto Flight: Those units and components furnish a means of automatically controlling the flight of the aircraft. Includes those units and components which control direction, heading, attitude, altitude, and speed.

AUTOPILOT

That portion of the system that uses radio/radar signals, directional and vertical references, air data (pitot-static), computed flight path data, or manually induced inputs to the system to automatically control the flight path of the aircraft through the adjustment to the pitch/roll/yaw axis or wing lift characteristics and provide visual cues for flight path guidance, i.e.: Integrated Flight Director. This includes power source devices, interlocking devices and amplifying computing, integrating, controlling, actuating, indicating, and warning devices such as computers, servos, control panels, indicators, warning lights, etc.