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Stephen Knowles @stephenknowles.bsky.social

Inertial Navigation (with lots of redundancy) is the usual baseline supplemented by varieties of direction finding/navaids. Additionally in Europe there's great Air Traffic Control; the competence of Pilots is tiptop.

sep 1, 2025, 8:43 pm • 2 0

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Stephen Knowles @stephenknowles.bsky.social

I worked with pointy jets. One of the older ones at the works used to land with a dead cockpit for 1/3 of its flights - the hardware was that bad. By contrast, GPS was so good the signal was artificially degraded for most users. All users get the precision variety now (until they don't).

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