ILS autoland is something that’s super common. Pretty much every jetliner and most commercial planes are equipped with them. What they can do is land a plane automatically.
Garmin Autoland does that too, but it does a lot of other things too.
It figures out that the pilot has been incapacitated (or is activated manually by the pilot)
It determines which of the nearby airports is best suited for the landing and makes the decision which airport to take
It automatically communicates with air traffic control to make sure it can actually land on that airport. It also automatically declares an emergency
It configures the autopilot to head to the airport
It configures the plane for landing
It performs an ILS landing
It then shuts off the engines to allow emergency personell safe access
Equating this system with ILS autoland is like equating Level 5 self-driving cars with an automatic parking system. Yes, both systems perform an automatic parking at the end of the journey, but the Level 5 self-driving car does a ton more too.
i think it’s standard equipment today. it all works with radio beacons so any place that has them should enable autolanding.
You are mixing up things.
ILS autoland is something that’s super common. Pretty much every jetliner and most commercial planes are equipped with them. What they can do is land a plane automatically.
Garmin Autoland does that too, but it does a lot of other things too.
Equating this system with ILS autoland is like equating Level 5 self-driving cars with an automatic parking system. Yes, both systems perform an automatic parking at the end of the journey, but the Level 5 self-driving car does a ton more too.