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Old 18th October 2016 | 12:08
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Originally Posted by Bobby Hart
Crash, I imagine that is a broad value served up by Android which attempts to speculate a conservative error value rather than actually deriving it mathematically - otherwise Runway HD could reliably use that error value to cancel the actual error.
Absolutely not. Just because you know that a GPS derived position has say a 90% likelihood of being within 65m of the real position does not allow you to determine that real position. You do not know which direction the error is in.
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