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I wonder if these aircraft contain any accelerometers, and if they do, how many?

• comboy 8y ago
  2 or 3 it would seem: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/36141/why-does-boeing-737-use-2-inertial-reference-systems-irs-and-gps https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/36141/why-does-...
• asdfasgasdgasdg 8y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9pvG_ZSnCc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9pvG_ZSnCc I don't know how much an accelerometer would help. See, you can be upside down and still feel like gravity is pointing downward depending on the flight conditions.
  • londons_explore 8y ago
    With an accelerometer and gyro, one can "dead reckon" to know the groundspeed and angle of attack. Augment with GPS and those results can be near perfect. Sign the GPS data and have a clock onboard the aircraft and it can't be spoofed. Combine with weather predictions delivered from a satellite and I bet you could get enough information to fly a plane with no external sensors at all. The whole "sensors were broken" thing should never be a reason for a plane to crash if this alternate mode of flying is possible.