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Why don't more helicopters have autopilot?

Asked by robmandu (21331points) April 15th, 2008

Was reading that most helicopters don’t have autopilot. Seems like almost every airplane does. If autopilot is possible on a helipcopter, and indeed some do have it, what prevents it from being installed more often? (You can guess that it’s simply expensive, but hey, a helicopter is already expensive, what’s a few more thousands of dinero?)

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