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Ocelot II

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30. It's an Airbus. They don't have yokes; there's a side-stick

Sun Dec 22, 2024, 10:37 AM

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for manual control on each side, right under the side window. The airplane is highly automated and most of the time it's controlled by the autopilot, based on a course loaded into the flight control computer. The direction and altitude can be changed using the dials along the top of the instrument panel (you can see the first officer changing these settings in the video). Most of the time the pilots don't use the side-stick, but a tricky approach like that one would have to be flown manually.

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