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Commercial airliners use a radar altimeter, not GPS/GNSS to assess altitude. Most if not all airliners equipped with autoland systems use ILS rather than GPS f
by bb611 9y ago
Commercial airliners use a radar altimeter, not GPS/GNSS to assess altitude.
Most if not all airliners equipped with autoland systems use ILS rather than GPS for position as well.
- coderjames 9y agoAgreed, but only the big iron. I spent 8 years working for Universal Avionics, who develops precision WAAS-SBAS GPS flight management systems for GA / BizJets: http://uasc.com/home/nextgentechnologies/precisionaviationwithlpv/ http://uasc.com/home/nextgentechnologies/precisionaviationwi...