With the startup Xwing developing software and sensors that would allow fully autonomous control of small aircraft, this week we’d like to ask: Below which altitude must a pilot be “hands-on” for take-offs and landings?
Ben has worked as a journalist and editor, covering technology, engineering and industry for the last 20 years. Initially writing about subjects from nuclear submarines to autonomous cars to future design and manufacturing technologies, he was editor of a leading UK-based engineering magazine before becoming editor of Aerospace Testing in 2017.