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I'm teaching a freshman class in very basic electronics. One of the requirements is for a technical paper with the usual academic BS --- MLS format, full references, bibliography, figures, etc..
One of the students wants to do a paper on Aviation GPS. I took a look at where I'd go to start my research (FAA, Trimble, Garmin...) and to a fault each of them had something that isn't true in today's world. One of them even talked about the military dither (SA) that makes the GPS inaccurate. I thought that went away 15 or 20 years ago.
Anyway, anybody got a good aviation GPS site that does a decent semi-technical explanation of how GPS works in TODAY'S aviation world? Remember, this is a fresh(wo)man with no electronics OR aviation experience and the paper is more to introduce the method of writing a formal paper in a technical field than to be absolutely technically precise to the fourth decimal place.
Thanks,
Jim
One of the students wants to do a paper on Aviation GPS. I took a look at where I'd go to start my research (FAA, Trimble, Garmin...) and to a fault each of them had something that isn't true in today's world. One of them even talked about the military dither (SA) that makes the GPS inaccurate. I thought that went away 15 or 20 years ago.
Anyway, anybody got a good aviation GPS site that does a decent semi-technical explanation of how GPS works in TODAY'S aviation world? Remember, this is a fresh(wo)man with no electronics OR aviation experience and the paper is more to introduce the method of writing a formal paper in a technical field than to be absolutely technically precise to the fourth decimal place.
Thanks,
Jim
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