Many modern aircraft belonging to the new generation can carry out the landing process on their own using a system often referred to as "Autoland" i.e. automatic landing, and pilots can program the systems to perform this process automatically while the crew monitors the plane's performance, but there are still many restrictions on the use of This system.
According to pilots, the automatic landing may represent less than 1% of the total number of landings on commercial flights, and in fact, many pilots believe that it is easier to land the plane manually, since monitoring the autopilot at this stage requires great effort and high vigilance.
Usually autopilot is used for landing in low visibility (fog) conditions, and when there is little or no wind, but in the case of strong and crossed winds, the pilot is much better to take over, and automatic landing operations require careful monitoring of systems that need training on them. continuously.
To help pilots to land, airports are equipped with ILS systems and this classification upgrades any runway from the CAT I class to the more accurate CAT III class, and here the height of the pilot is indicated so that he is able to see the runway, and ultra-modern automatic landing systems allow the completion of operations Flying even with low visibility.
These systems are an auxiliary tool used to guide pilots towards the runway in the final approaching stages, and therefore not all airports can support automatic landings if they are not equipped with these technologies, for example the CAT I system requires manual landing, but the runway visibility must be more than 550 meters .