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Satnav (GPS GLONASS COMPASS Galileo) / Re: GNSS trustworthiness in mountainous areas
« on: May 16, 2014, 10:14:46 PM »
In the Army we spent a lot of time training CASEVAC requests in order to get the guys to provide us with proper coordinates. One rule was to always plot the GPS position on the map and verify the location before calling in CASEVAC. It is a good procedure to follow and with modern GPS hardware with built in maps it is really easy to see if the position on the GPS map seems to match the actual location.
Using automatic GPS-positions without requesting confirmation from the crew in the field is a certain receipe for delayed extraction.
Using automatic GPS-positions without requesting confirmation from the crew in the field is a certain receipe for delayed extraction.