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Old 13th Nov 2019, 15:28
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wiggy
 
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Originally Posted by India Four Two

I was involved with an airborne survey in Chad over ten years ago. The accuracy of the survey was astounding. We had reliable gravity readings of 1 milligal, which is about one-millionth of a "g". These data were extracted from raw data that included "noise" of plus or minus 1 to 2 "g".
Just excuse me for asking if I've understood that comment- I'm sometimes hard of reading....

You are saying you were flying a piece of kit around in a presumably vibrating aircraft, presumably in turbulence, and nevertheless it was still measuring "g" to an accuracy of one in a million ...If that was the case colour me very very impressed..in simple terms how the heck did it do that? ( simple explanation or a suitable link to one will do)
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