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Old Apr 26, 2009 | 8:37 pm
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rsolomon
 
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Originally Posted by bugayev
It's not really GPS though, it does take cues from the aircraft GPS but as far as I know about the technology behind, the mapping side is just the image and overlay, not working out the plane's location independently on each display.
I didn't expect the displays were independently mapping, that WOULD be crazy

Numerous other folks had the map up and none were working, so it's obviously a crashed central service. Mostly annoying for the lack of a time remaining display - which I appreciate greatly!

Richard
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