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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 months ago When you can just lift off and adjust verticality to avoid objects You need to navigate between objects on an additional access. Also, manage speed and trajectory with a changing mass, as you exhaust fuel. Not rocket science, but its close. it is actually easier than self-driving cars (which is why almost all of a commercial flight is running on autopilot) Commercial flight follows lanes of traffic with regular well-regulated flight paths. One thing that gets helicopters and small engine aircraft pilots in trouble is that they don’t have any of that.
You need to navigate between objects on an additional access. Also, manage speed and trajectory with a changing mass, as you exhaust fuel.
Not rocket science, but its close.
Commercial flight follows lanes of traffic with regular well-regulated flight paths.
One thing that gets helicopters and small engine aircraft pilots in trouble is that they don’t have any of that.