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Old 23rd Nov 2006, 09:56
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No, their primary nav is inertial (gyros), and the FMS uses DME fixes (or GPS, on the more modern ones) to correct the errors that gradually creep in.

Obviously this works only in range of DMEs. Over the ocean it's 100% inertial, possibly with GPS corrections.
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