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Faro From Egypt, joined Aug 2007, 1443 posts, RR: 0
Posted (5 years 8 months 1 week 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1096 times:

Do combat military aircraft have flight directors/autopilots/auto-throttles or are they 100% hand-flown?

Faro

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Bengan From Sweden, joined Jul 2007, 42 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (5 years 8 months 1 week 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1089 times:

I know the Saab Viggen has an auto-throttle and an auto-pilot that is capable of aiming and firing the onboard gun at the radar target. This capability is also available in Gripen.

http://www.canit.se/~griffon/aviation/text/37viggen.htm

/Bengt

Jetlagged From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2005, 2452 posts, RR: 17
Reply 2, posted (5 years 8 months 1 week 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1089 times:

Of course, why not have an autopilot? It would be very hard on the single seater pilot to have to hand fly for hours on end. During combat I presume the aircraft is normally hand flown, but some strike aircraft use autopilot for certain specialised weapon delivery profiles. Bomber aircraft even more so. Autopilot was also used for radar controlled or ground controlled interception back in the day.

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BAe146QT From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2006, 996 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (5 years 8 months 1 week 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 1016 times:

Quoting Jetlagged (Reply 2):
It would be very hard on the single seater pilot to have to hand fly for hours on end

Imagine a trans-Atlantic ferry flight!

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TheSonntag From Germany, joined Jun 2005, 3347 posts, RR: 30
Reply 4, posted (5 years 8 months 1 week 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 985 times:

Quoting Faro (Thread starter):
Do combat military aircraft have flight directors/autopilots/auto-throttles or are they 100% hand-flown?

The Tornado has a terrain-following radar, which makes it possible that the plane flies with more than 1000 km/h only 60 metres above the ground, fully automatic.

The Eurofighter has a lot of automatic systems, but I do not know all details.

FLY2HMO From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (5 years 8 months 1 week 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 938 times:

Quoting TheSonntag (Reply 4):
The Tornado has a terrain-following radar, which makes it possible that the plane flies with more than 1000 km/h only 60 metres above the ground, fully automatic

AFAIK the F-15E has this capability too, and most other strike aircraft for that matter.

Bhill From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 841 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (5 years 8 months 1 week 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 807 times:

I understand that most photo-recon planes use autopilot during the "picture taking" phase of the mission...

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DeltaGuy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (5 years 8 months 1 week 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 801 times:

F-15A/B/C/D has it. Not a sophisticated CAT III system like on an airliner, but enough to relieve the stress on a nice long t/o ferry hop.

DeltaGuy

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