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The Global Positioning System A Shared National Asset (1995) / Chapter Skim
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... The major benefits of GPS navigation and surveillance watt ondy be achieved when its coverage and accuracy are exploited to enable aircraft to fly user-preferred flight paths with minimal command and control from air traffic controllers. The benefits and enabling factors for these new operational procedures are discussed below.23 Most instrument flights are constrained to specified paths that facilitate the air traffic management (ATM)
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  • collision avoidance
  • traffic controllers
  • flight path
  • air traffic
  • traffic management

  • aircraft flight
  • flight paths


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