Subject: North Pole, inertial navigation, and GPS
Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav,alt.satellite.gps
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 05:22:25 -0800

http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?visitid=7475

Some of you may be interested to read Shawn Fleming's narrative
of his "visit" to the North Pole "to operationally test, in
a realistic environment, new ring laser gyro inertial navigation
units and avionics control units".

They had consumer grade GPS receivers on the flight:
"We had our personal GPS's onboard as well. Stuck to our windows
using R-A-M mounts were my reliable Garmin eMap and a GPS-35
connected to a serial data logger. An additional eTrex was
connected to a laptop PC for a real time moving map. We found their
position data to be extremely close to the Ashtech costing orders
of magnitude more."