BA B747's and GPS

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From: The Winchester
FWIW first note I have in my logbooks about any RNAV approach checking or training in the sim dates from 2005. Given as I recall it GPS was on the airframe some time before that evolution in our procedures I'd say eckhard's guess of around 1999 or at least at some point around the turn of the century wouldn't be far out...

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From: France
I also vaguely remember a fleet notice about the “millennium bug”, which made some reference to GPS and non-GPS-equipped aircraft, so that would support 1999 as a likely start-date for fitting the receivers.




