[geeks] GPS on planes

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Scott Howard wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:30:12PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> > The problem with using GPS on an airplane is that the pilots also use
> > GPS. Your handheld receiver is very likely to prevent theirs from working.
>
> Commercial airlines do NOT use GPS for navigation.  End of story.

They use it for correction... the newer inertial navigation 3D positioning
sensors from boeing for example they give you 3 degrees of freedom info in
real time, and they all use GPS for error, deviation and drift correction.