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Two neat articles. Thank you both.
As I have written here before, I did the first flights with a then state of the art Navstar 5 Channel GPS in a Navy aircraft, in my case the SH-60B.
The system integrated with our multi-function display and synced all our tactical symbology. The precise location of the "numbers" on military runways are surveyed and the information is provided in lat/long. On the first flight I entered a fly to point based on the approach end of a runway at Pax River...I was "Data Gathering Monkey" that day and as the helo symbol captured the fly to point we were hovering right above the numbers, which for old pilots like me who flew with manual plotting boards as back-up, was astounding.
Changed everything.
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1996 FJ80.
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