First Autonomous Flight Across the United States

First Autonomous Flight Across the United States jobyaviation.com

Aircraft equipped with Joby’s autonomy technology completes first-ever autonomous flight across the United States, arriving in North Carolina’s Outer Banks Aircraft covered 3,199 miles with zero control inputs from…

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silksowed9 days ago

Very impressive, but I wonder what the FAA's regulatory perspective is on this?

wpm9 days ago

There was an onboard safety pilot so it's no different than a normal flight into an ILS airport where autopilot does basically everything.

I do also wonder though what future regulations will look like, and what the FAA has cooking already for fully automated jets and so on.

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