Pressing the red button in the cabin's overhead turns command over to Garmin Autoland, which precisely puts the airplane back on the best runway when the pilot can't. Editor's Choice worthy, indeed.
We didn’t know what to expect when Garmin invited us to its Olathe, Kansas, testing grounds to fly Autoland. But sitting shotgun in a new Piper M600 turboprop observing Garmin’s latest layer of safety backstop systems called Autonomi, there was no question Autoland would win Aviation Consumer’s prestigious Gear of the Year award.
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