Recent content by Curt Chambers

....and down the rabbit hole I went....Actually JUST got an answer back to my question from a contact at Textron. Longitude operators will option the Honeywell Laseref units IF they need the capability of "Required Navigation Performance AR (Authorization Required) Approaches" which require an...

Yep - totally get that. My question was more that the Northrop FOG based unit and the Honeywell RLG unit both seem to offer a very similar feature set: Hybrid Inertial/GPS when GPS data is available and a fallback to inertial positioning when GPS is degraded. I wondered why someone would elect...

On the new Longitude it appears it comes standard with dual Northrop Grumman LCR-100N "Hybrid Navigators" that are full AHRS units with fiber optic gyros & GPS input and inertial positioning with the loss of GPS. As an option you can swap those for Honeywell Laseref VI Inertial/GPS units with...