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Auto-GCAS Saves Unconscious F-16 Pilot—Declassified USAF Footage

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Declassified HUD footage of an F-16 whose unconscious pilot is saved by the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System. It shows the aircraft pulling out of a dive on its own.

Used as a concrete example of automation successfully saving an incapacitated pilot.

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4 comments from Hacker News

@cbanek2017 · in “Flight QF72: What happens when automation leaves pilots powerless?”

That's an excellent point. Even if it's not the people, the stick or manual control inputs are also a point of failure. So if suddenly your stick does something strange, and your flight computer allows it (thinking human knows best) you are in big trouble. The opposite of this is the ground collision avoidance systems, where the humans are one of the weakest parts of the aircraft (due to G-loc). [VIDEO]

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@212018 · in “If a pilot ejects, what is the autopilot programmed to do?”

Not an expert, but in military planes there are systems which kick in exactly when the plane is outside it's normal regime. Auto-GCAS Saves Unconscious F-16 Pilot: [VIDEO]

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@ziont2018 · in “The cold start problem: how to build your machine learning portfolio”

Skunkworks: omg this kid has replicated our Auto-GAS system using only computer vision Lockheed Martin CEO: So what the fuck is this youtube video? [VIDEO]

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@throwanem2021 · in “In two incidents, F-16 aviators were rendered unconscious, but saved by software”

Assuming we're talking about the typical example ( [VIDEO] ) - in the HUD, altitude is the right-hand vertical tape. (The left one is airspeed.) It looks to bottom out around 4400 feet during the AGCAS recovery.

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