Stability augmentation promises to give you even less control

On Aug 8, 9:54*pm, a wrote:
On Aug 8, 8:17*pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:



On Aug 8, 8:10*pm, Jim Logajan wrote:

Dudley Henriques wrote:
From my yard work handbook; Rider Mower ABS, GOOD.............Rider
Mower
Stabaug..........Good..............Kerchunk....... .........BAD!! *:-))
D

Hmmm - does it say how bad? Is it considered Controlled Flight into Terrain
(CFIT) or Controlled Mow into Things (CMIT)? Would it help if I filed a
ASRS after such an incident? It's not like it is intentional or anything.
Sure, I may let the grass get a tad high before mowing it, causing me to
mow under marginal visual mowing conditions, but there are always
extenuating circumstances.

My lifelong dream is to get one of those mowers that mows
automatically while I sit up on the porch in air conditioned comfort
with a Jack Daniels in one mitt and a remote control joystick for the
mower in the other. :-)
DH

With a suitably modified GPS enabled autopilot (some tractors are
large farms actually have these) you could be spared the labor of
working the joystick. Once programmed it would fly (well, taxi) a
suitable pattern, upwind, crosswind, downwind, base, and upwind again
and mow down those blades that intrude into a bug's airspace.

I claim extra credit for aviation content in the above.

5 Atta Boys and no "Oh ****s" to you for aviation related
content :-)))

:-))
DH

In article ,
says...

This article is strongly slanted in favor of new stability-augmentation
gadgets for light aircraft:

http://www.flyingmag.com/blogs/going...-your-airplane

Not surprisingly, Cirrus is installing the gadget first, and Garmin is writing
the poorly-tested software for it.

Apparently the author does not understand the distinction between flying for
fun and flying for transportation. The pilot who flies for fun is unlikely to
want a computer to fly for him, no matter how well the computer does it or how
safe the computer can make things. A pilot who flies for transportation might
welcome more computer control. But putting gadgets like this on every light
aircraft makes no sense. Sure, it might improve safety, but so would
automating the entire flight, giving the pilot no control at all--and yet
complete automation of flights would defeat the purpose of flying for many
hobby pilots.

http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=21816

--
Duncan.