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Started by yakra, February 27, 2011, 12:47:43 PM

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Quote from: agentsteel53 on April 14, 2011, 08:34:23 PM
I'm okay at that, but not amazing, so I've always wished my GPS worked at such altitudes.  Alas, it cannot get a signal from the satellites - likely due to the plane's metal skin.

I've never had issues getting a good signal if I put my Garmin next to a window on a plane. It's a hiking/outdoors GPS though and not a road navigation GPS.


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I knew a fellow who took a GPS on Concorde to try to get the 1350-mph speed readout. It worked fine even at 60,000 feet above the North Atlantic. Again, though, it wasn't a sat-nav designed for use in a car so maybe that's the difference.
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