Verification of the precise position of the aircraft in air navigation based on the solution of the RTK-OTF technique

The article presents the possibility of applying the differential technique RTK-OTF to recover the position of the aircraft in the post-processing mode. Within the framework of the conducted research, the authors designated the geocentric coordinates XYZ of the aircraft and compared them. In the research experiment, they used archive materials from the test flight of the aircraft Cessna 172 around the airfield in Deblin on 1 June 2010. The actual position of the aircraft Cessna 172 was recovered on the basis of GPS kinematic observations registered by the receiver Topcon HiperPro mounted on board the aircraft. In the calculations, the authors also used static GPS observations from the reference station REF1 as well as virtual reference stations VirA and VirB. The final coordinates of the aircraft Cessna 172 with three independent determinations RTK-OTF were defined in the AOSS v.2.0 programme. On this basis, they made verification of accuracy in determining XYZ coordinates of the aircraft Cessna 172. The dispersion of results for the difference in the designation of the X coordinate of the aircraft ranges from –0.19 m to +0.05 m. On the other hand, the size of the difference in the designation of Y-coordinate of the aircraft ranges from –0.07 m to +0.11 m. In addition, the dispersion of the results for the difference in the designation of the Z coordinate of the aircraft is from 0.19 m to +0.12 m.