Along with making the proper Position Grid, Variation and Datum, settings in your Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, you cannot get the best accuracy unless you also make the proper Wide Area ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has targeted September 2003 as the first stop in its evolution to satellite navigation, but the agency's acquisition and research chief said Tuesday that it's time ...

The old standards like the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83) for horizontal positioning and the North American Vertical ...

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FAA certified the first cockpit navigation system that includes a wide area augmentation system (WAAS), weeks before the agency makes the WAAS signal operational. The CNX80 avionics suite, ...

originators of the first GPS handheld, announced today its first shipment of upgraded GPS receivers offering accuracy of better than three meters. Selected Magellan handhelds now feature Wide Area ...

The Federal Aviation Administration said yesterday within three years it will enhance the Global Positioning Satellite System to allow small airplanes for the first time to land in poor visibility at ...

The second satellite with a payload that will support air navigation enhancements for the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) has been deployed for Lockheed Martin by the PanAmSat Corporation. The PanAmSat ...

A headline in Loudoun Extra March 16 referred incorrectly to a new landing system at Leesburg Executive Airport . The wide area augmentation system will not replace the airport's current navigational ...

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