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Old 16-09-2021, 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by DavidTrap View Post
As someone who’s piloting experience maxes out at RC helicopters, I’m curious to know if you could safely navigate an A380 across the Pacific if the GPS, etc and radio died halfway across?? Is there a “paper backup” in your briefcase?

DT
The A380 has serious levels of redundancy, hence if the USA shuts off the GPS system, its laser gyro based inertial navigation will do just fine....and if all else fails, a clock and a compass

Paper charts are not carried any more.

Last edited by Peter Ward; 16-09-2021 at 11:56 AM. Reason: typo
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