CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin January 2, 2015 19:49:00
All of it can be disconnected and hand flown which pilots do quite frequently in both landing and takeoff. >> there's a lot going on. you explained the benefit of having auto pilot. are pilots relying too much on auto pilot and the computer systems? >> well pilots today in modern airline operations are trained to operate in an automated environment to the highest level that they can because it actually is a workload decreaser, and the pilots become the management capability of the system as they manipulate these controls and read the instrumentation and operate the power systems of the aircraf...