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Old 13th Sep 2013, 17:34
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Without radio updating, the FMC position will gradually 'blend' towards a position referenced to its alignment point, since up to then it has constantly been 'corrected' by updating. No sudden 'jump'. IE in Tom's language, the error vector will slowly reduce to zero.
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