• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.