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Questions about inertial navigation systems which sense an aircraft's motion to determine location as it travels.

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Why does Boeing 737 use 2 Inertial Reference Systems (IRS) and GPS?

Could somebody explain a little bit why they need 2 separate GPS and 2 separate IRS? So that if one fails, the other can still be used to complete the flight. Airbus even have 3. What is mea …
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