Garmin Autoland

[wcalvert]

... and I was going to bring up the issue of the Go Around after you cut the engine.

[David Carter]

A couple of people have mentioned the need for a radar altimeter to determine the height for the landing flare. Seems that Garmin has a much less expensive solution for this - a LIDAR sensor that they currently sell for USD 130.

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/557294

This is being used already in some of our experimental planes as a component of this product:

https://www.enginebridge.com/product...ntroller-copy/

[supik]

Originally Posted by David Carter

A couple of people have mentioned the need for a radar altimeter to determine the height for the landing flare. Seems that Garmin has a much less expensive solution for this - a LIDAR sensor that they currently sell for USD 130.

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/557294

This is being used already in some of our experimental planes as a component of this product:

https://www.enginebridge.com/product...ntroller-copy/

Thanks, I had no idea about it..

[emsvitil]

Does the landing lidar have a continuous display mode, or is it voice only?

[andrewtac]

Originally Posted by emsvitil

Does the landing lidar have a continuous display mode, or is it voice only?

Voice only

[bkervaski]

Don't forget servos for the brakes. Otherwise the system would have no way of steering or stopping once on the runway.

I think we can skip the brake servos .. once on the ground and slow enough where rudder authority is lost the job is done, lives are saved.