PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - What´s the time, please ?
View Single Post
Old 13th Dec 2009, 15:47
  #2 (permalink)  
STBYRUD
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: GPS L INVALID
Posts: 580
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Yep, GPS receivers use the UTC Offset message to correct for the 15 second difference automatically to compute UTC (which itself is 34 seconds behind the International Atomic Time). I don't know what kind of FMC you're using, but on the 737NG the clock can display UTC time derived from the GPS directly. (In the end 15 seconds aren't really a big problem anyway, the ICAO only prescribes that clocks should be accurate to the nearest minute)

Last edited by STBYRUD; 14th Dec 2009 at 04:31.
STBYRUD is offline