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Old 16th April 2003 | 21:49
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NWSRG
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Question Inertial Navigation Systems

Folks,

I have read that an INS system must be initialised before flight. Presumably this is so that the aircraft knows where it is starting from. But how is it done? Is GPS used? And why does it take some time - apparently up to ten minutes. Just curious.
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