I’d bet I’ve saved myself and my family more than 15 times from the “autopilot”. I drive a 2021 Tesla model Y with full “self driving”. I don’t even engage it anymore. It can’t even hold a constant speed, and continually tries to cut off trucks, and other traffic, just goes into other lanes, or just “it’s yours, I’m done” the autopilot. Come on down to CVG and I’ll let you see for yourself.
I’m not a Tesla fan at all, I bought my last car purely based on the fact it handles well and is fun to drive. I also usually expect any Tesla driver on the road to do something stupid and/or overly aggressive when I’m driving near them which usually ends up happening. What I was trying to convey though is I’d probably feel much safer in a Waymo on the same roads than I would in a regular Uber/Lyft. Too many bad experiences with crappy drivers.
The Apex isn’t terrible. It has some quirks and gotchas. Like being on an arrival and then plugging in the visual approach for the runway and inserting it into the flight plan, only to have it erase the rest of the arrival you’re supposed to be on. Ask me how I found that one out descending into Daytona via. Cursing ensued. In the 12s I only flew the NG. Now in the 24 supposedly it’s the same system as the NGX. Some added functionality but overall pretty much the same system. I will say there is a learning curve and it probably cost those people their lives off the coast of NC a few years back when that guy couldn’t figure out the box in IMC lost out over the ocean.
Hard disagree - I mean, "it's fine." And if you're going from approach to approach arrival to arrival it ain't bad, but like, any mixed VFR/SVFR/IFR shenanigans and I would wildly like to have the better stack and think it is pretty terrible? I don't know, also, the boot up time is horrendous - we worked out some work arounds, but then you're fighting with cold weather battery life vs. sucking rocks the prop in winter. Not a fan.
Ah, Russia. How I don’t miss thee.
Story time!
I’ve told a few stories on here in the past. I will say that backing down the interstate to go back to your exit was way more common than it ever should have been. Look on YouTube for Russian dash cams and you’ll see what I mean.
Are you taking about zipping around below 500 feet on some sort of sight seeing tour in the mountains of AK? You might be right. Im sure there are better versions of aviaonics suited for that kind of flying. I dont do any of that in the 24. But like I said, other than a few gotchas that can be problematic, once you learn the UI all it's stuff can become second nature. And is very capable.
Yeah. I can buy all that.
Mostly that kind of flying is like, "Fly IFR to airport A, shoot the approach, break out, cancel, fly to airport B via VFR or SVFR" that or "shoot ILS into one airport, cancel then get a special into another airport" that was pretty common.
Yeah, Like, my training in the Honeywell was basically, "Sit in the thing and do flight plans and stuff" then released to the line - I did fine, I am a nerdy technical dude, and I read the manual cover to cover... but also, if you are doing weird dynamic stuff Fischer Price is honestly optimal... It just keeps your head outside and you're not drowning in information, and if I was getting the crap beat out of me I just found the garmins easier to manipulate in anything > moderate turbulence, too.
I mean, it's been 5 years, but touchscreen Garmin stack was amazing in comparison