Taxi plate won't show actual location aircraft

mdragon

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I've been having this issue for months. Wondering if anybody knows the cause. I use Seattle avionics for airport taxi information. Lately, it shows the magenta airplane that indicates location significantly off from actual location when the taxi diagrams pulled up. Sometimes a mile away from where the airplane actually is. Despite updating the Seattle avionics database several times, the problem persists. Any ideas?

GPS shows a very specific latitude and longitude and appears to be properly synced with satellites when this occurs.
 

swatson999

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Most likely the plate. False positions for GPS are usually due to cycle slips, such as a millisecond interrupt slip which will cause a 300 km sudden jump in position followed by a return to the correct location. The GPS solution is pretty robust and if it were wrong on a plate, it'd likely be wrong on all mapping.

My guess...the georeferencing data on the plate is bad. It happens.
 
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