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Some Remarks on the Distribution of Aircraft Track-keeping Errors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

M. R. Abbott
Affiliation:
(Royal Aircraft Establishment)

Extract

Wing Commander Anderson has drawn attention to the fact that the distribution of the larger navigational errors is frequently observed to be non-gaussian in character. He raises the point whether this can be accounted for by the generation of such errors in succession, rather than simultaneously. The successive generation of navigation errors arises through the error incurred on a particular leg being distributed about a mean which is dependent on the error up to the end of the previous leg.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1965

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