Alberchico From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 2681 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 1730 times:
Quoting Boeing nut (Reply 1): Or calibrating it against the aircrafts instruments?
Isn't that done on the ground by mechanics ???
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SLUAviator From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 357 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1682 times:
Afay1 From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 1293 posts, RR: 3 Reply 7, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1607 times:
Could you, yes, should you; no! It probably won't interfere, but who knows if it is somehow shielded incorrectly or interferes through a defect of some kind. It isn't neccesarily that the devices normally would interfere, but they are not subject to the testing and certification of ones meant for aircraft. Many pre-GPS Soviet-era aircraft have ad-hoc GPS systems using handheld devices. Some can even correlate GPS and GLONASS (as an aside, doesn't GLONASS sound like something crude?)
MrMcCoy From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 377 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (7 years 1 month 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1569 times:
Quoting Afay1 (Reply 7): Could you, yes, should you; no! It probably won't interfere, but who knows if it is somehow shielded incorrectly or interferes through a defect of some kind. It isn't neccesarily that the devices normally would interfere, but they are not subject to the testing and certification of ones meant for aircraft. Many pre-GPS Soviet-era aircraft have ad-hoc GPS systems using handheld devices. Some can even correlate GPS and GLONASS (as an aside, doesn't GLONASS sound like something crude?)
GPS receivers are passive, and don't send out any signals above and beyond what might be expected from any battery-powered device (eg. cd player, MP3 players, etc.)
It only takes five years to go from rumor to standard operating procedure.
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