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by coredog64 890 days ago
GPS isn’t the only navigation tool. INS is pretty accurate if you zero it correctly, and VOR is good enough to keep to a specific airway.
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All INSes require periodic GPS updates to limit the growth of positional error. Usually it's once per second or once every 10th of a second.
That sounds way too frequent, isn't typical holdover like 12 hours?