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HP 29 GPS: the view from 9865 meters!
06-01-2017, 10:40 PM
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(06-01-2017 08:29 PM)PANAMATIK Wrote:  Does the GPS system show altitudes above 100 km ?

Military grade GPS units will. Civilian ones are artificially limited to a maximum altitude of 18 km and a maximum speed of 1,000 knots (sometimes both, sometimes either).

These limits are imposed by software, so it is possible to remove them from some GPS devices by updating their firmware.

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