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Old 27th Feb 2008, 08:33
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vapilot2004
 
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Perhaps the old lady just doesn't care for this side of the equator.

Just last week a crew flying this plane strayed 10 miles into Iran because of the GPS.
I'm not the most succinct wordsmith in the library but I hope this was meant to say that the NAV error was due to the crew's lack of a working GPS.

A failing INS**, without regularly scheduled cross-checks could lead one astray in an insidious manner, but not a GPS. The box is designed to flag it's own outputs upon failure.



**Come to think of it, a serviceable INS could do this too.
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