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Old 26th April 2012 | 23:26
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Blinkz
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In the Airbus it uses a mixture of IRS and GPS positions to compute the aircrafts position. The IRS is updated using DME/DME and VOR/DME position fixing. As has been mention it is still common to use VOR approaches as well, either if the ILS is off the air or simply for small airports.

NDBs on the other hand seem to be quickly becoming obsolete!
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