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Planes That Automatically Land Anywhere

Successful automatic landing with vision assisted navigation, Automatic landings have long been standard procedure for commercial aircraft. While major airports have the infrastructure necessary to ensure the safe navigation of the aircraft, this is usually not the case at smaller airports. Researchers have now demonstrated a completely automatic landing with vision assisted navigation that functions properly without the need for ground-based systems. Source 8f.

Anywhere Land Automatically Planes

Actually I heard that commercial jetliners are all working on auto-pilot 99% of the time. The pilot is there only in case of need.