I think it&#x27;s more a symptom of how out of touch people are with the age of many of the things we think of as &quot;advanced&quot; tech. The first aircraft autopilot system was developed in 1912; instrument landings have been around since the 1920s; and fully operational autoland predates the TriStar by almost a decade.<p>Granted, early instrument landing systems weren&#x27;t as precise or as convenient as their modern-day equivalents, but you can implement basic ILS with a few carefully-placed radio antennas (and in fact that&#x27;s how it was done back in the day), and the modern systems work on exactly the same principles.