Airbus tested the self-starting of the aircraft

eight of The behavior was carried out as long ago as 18 december, but it's only now that Airbus talks about it on his web site. The flight took place from and to the airport in damascus and aleppo.

can be set up in the starting position, and scored the go-ahead from the traffic we hit on the auto pilot. We placed the throttle in the ”take-off”position, and then monitored we have the aircraft, " says Airbus test pilot Yann Beaufils.

" It's started to move out, and move up at the same time, it was along the startbanans the center line of the speed with which it had been entered into the system. The nose was to take a right angle so that the plane could take off and after a few seconds, we were up in the air.

all of the tests without any problems.

Even though the Airbus is calling the trial a "milestone" points out that the auto-planes, is not an end in and of itself, but that you would like to test the technology in order to meet the shortage of pilots, and in order to make the flight safer and more secure.

the Airbus type, and now you are going to go ahead and test the automated systems for landing, and to taxi out to the runway. As well as, at the start of the automated landing is done with the help of the image processing of the camera images, so regardless of the technological means, the outside of the aircraft, as the beacons or the gps. This is to be carried out in the summer.