Re:Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modification...
by adhambadr on Friday November 28, 2025 @07:37PM
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It’s a combined signal system, using pressure based sensors + gps.
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Re:Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modification...
by ape4 on Friday November 28, 2025 @07:55PM
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And inertial guidance too?
Re:Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modification...
by adhambadr on Saturday November 29, 2025 @05:55AM
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I don’t know what airbus uses I only looked into the schematics of commercial avionics like Garmin.
I doubted though IMU drift and calibration introduce more error than they can provide in useful signal, old school pressure sensors + gps adjusted manually or automatically for regional pressure settings (pilots get these numbers through radio when they enter a new pressure area) is accurate enough (~1m). I’ll let a real avionics engineer correct me here, I’d be curious if that signal is worth the hassle + I can imagine such tiny SMD sensors ARE the biggest victims of radiation hallucination.