FLYING Journal honored our revolutionary Autoland system — a part of our Garmin AutonomiTM household of autonomous safety-enhancing applied sciences — with a 2021 Editors’ Alternative Award. Autoland is the world’s first licensed system of its form with the flexibility to activate throughout an emergency state of affairs to autonomously management and land an plane with out human intervention1.
Annually, FLYING’s Editors’ Alternative Awards have a good time an elite assortment of plane and merchandise that show important innovation and technological developments. For 2021, FLYING selected to honor the collaboration between organizations within the efforts required to realize certification nicely as highlighting the significance of working collectively to drive innovation ahead for the trade.
“We’re humbled to obtain this award for Autoland from such a revered publication like FLYING,” mentioned Carl Wolf, Garmin vice chairman aviation gross sales and advertising and marketing. “This award acknowledges a decade’s value of ardour and dedication exhibited by the Garmin workforce who by no means cease innovating in ways in which assist make aviation safer. Much more, we’re proud to obtain this recognition together with our plane manufacturing collaborators Piper, DAHER, and Cirrus, who shared the identical imaginative and prescient to carry this life- saving know-how to the trade.”
Within the occasion of an emergency comparable to pilot incapacitation, the pilot or perhaps a passenger on board can activate Autoland to land the plane with a easy press of a devoted button. Autoland can even activate routinely if the system determines it’s crucial. As soon as activated, the system instantly calculates a flight path to essentially the most appropriate airport and runway, whereas avoiding terrain and antagonistic climate, initiates an strategy and routinely lands the plane.
This yr’s recipients of FLYING’s Editors’ Alternative Awards will compete for the FLYING 2021 Innovation Award, an honor introduced at the side of EAA AirVenture, July 26 by way of August 1, recognizing essentially the most progressive product to have reached the enterprise and normal aviation market the earlier yr.
The primary Autoland system for normal aviation plane, Garmin Autoland has obtained Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification within the Piper M600, the Daher TBM 940, and the Cirrus Imaginative and prescient Jet as a part of the G3000® built-in flight deck. European Union Aviation Security Company (EASA) approval was additionally granted to Daher with the TBM 940.
For extra details about Autoland and the Garmin AutonomiTM household of automated flight applied sciences, go to www.garmin.com/Autonomi.
