position fix in a sentence

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1. The navigator will have more confidence in a position fix that is formed by a small cocked hat with angles close to those of an equilateral triangle.
2. Radio contact with the aircraft was lost on 12 October 1974, apparently as the aircraft was heading into the typhoon's eye to make a second position fix.
3. "The same GPS receiver that provided accuracy within 100 meters of a user's location yesterday is providing position fixes with as good as 10-meter accuracy today ."
4. Radar return data was compared to prestored reference data and the resulting position fix information was used to update the inertial guidance system and generate RV steering commands.
5. Using hyperbolic geometry and radionavigation principles, a position fix with an accuracy on the order of was realizable over the entire globe at any time of the day.
6. Submarines typically are guided by inertial navigation systems, but these dead reckoning systems develop position drift which must be corrected by occasional position fixes from a GNSS system.
7. With technical refinements that make position fixes accurate to within meters, the radio-based LORAN system was used in the late 20th Century but has been discontinued in North America.
8. Heck agreed, but believed that existing navigation aids would not meet the needs of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in terms of the immediacy and accuracy of position fixes.
9. Generally speaking a position fix is calculated by taking into account measurements ( referred to as observations ) of distances or angles to reference points whose positions are known.
10. Tropical Cyclone Eighteen is a short lived cyclone only listed in the IBTrACS data base with three position fixes near 22 N 150 W . No other information is available.