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.
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.
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).