Originally Posted by Lowtimer77

Okay, I have a little bit of a twist on a common hypothetical asked in the aviation world: Let's say both the captain and copilot on an airliner are somehow incapacitated. The only other pilot on board is a passenger who is a Private Pilot. Now I know that most modern airliners have an autoland feature but I really know nothing about it as far as how it is engaged.

The question is, would ATC try to talk the private pilot down and have him/her manually land the aircraft, or would they have the private pilot engage the autoland feature?

Again, I know nothing about autoland in terms of it being difficult or really easy to use...