International Aspects of Navigation in Europe

Rolf Johannessen

Abstract:	Reference is made to the navaids used by early explorers and this is compared to the performance GPS is likely to give in Europe in the near future. It is suggested that GPS will satisfy most navigation requirements there and that integrated with an inertial system the probability of a westbound aircraft having to turn back due to a malfunction in the navigation system is so small as to be insignificant. The levels of interference to GPS are touched upon and it is argued that the best protection against jamming is a combination of GPS, controlled reception pattern antennas and inertial integration.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1988) June 21 - 23, 1988 U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland
Pages:	54 - 57
Cite this article:	Johannessen, Rolf, "International Aspects of Navigation in Europe," Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1988), Annapolis, Maryland, June 1988, pp. 54-57.
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