Reply to post: Re: Obviously not GPS jamming

Did this airliner land in the North Sea? No. So what happened? El Reg probes flight tracker site oddity

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Re: Obviously not GPS jamming

INS/IRS do drift, which is why modern aircraft don't rely on them entirely. The INS/IRS positions are compared regularly with DME/GPS fixing (and radar fixes on older military aircraft) to compute an accurate position. using Kalmann filtering techniques.

Something like a 146/V-bomber would have been much more prone to errors, since the computation was minimal/non-existent.

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