WordNet
n. a system to control a plane or spacecraft; uses inertial forces [syn: inertial navigation system]
Usage examples of "inertial guidance system".
Claypoole began, his distrust of the inertial guidance system of just a moment earlier completely forgotten.
An inertial guidance system kept Hyakowa's HUD up to date, and Bravo unit's route and first objective were clearly marked on the HUD.
Every twelve seconds, it updated its inertial guidance system with a fix from the Global Positioning System navigational satellites, but after only a forty-five-minute low-level flight, its navigational error was less than sixteen feet.
The terrain reads were primarily used to adjust the data from the inertial guidance system, correcting it as it got farther and farther off baseline.
There wasn't anything that would show up on the map, so there wasn't any point in looking at the map except to see where the map's inertial guidance system claimed they were.
And they'd made so many turns and doglegs, he wouldn't be surprised to find the inertial guidance system put them on entirely the wrong side of Nidhogge.
Every Marine whod served long enough to have had to rely on his helmets integral inertial guidance system knew how unreliable it could be over long distances with many turns and no obvious reference points.
Whatever else might have gone wrong with the device, its inertial guidance system was functioning perfectly.
Brashan asked, and Sean paused to orient his built-in inertial guidance system to the observations he'd made on the way in.
The other two A-10s of his group did the same, and soon six vapor trails traced the paths of the streaking missiles, their inertial guidance system computers locking on to the cruiser's SAM radars.
Her inertial guidance system told her that she was heading in just the right direction for Skagerrak.
By processing signals from five gyroscopes, an inertial guidance system, and a radar altimeter, the hover coupler literally took over the fine adjustments of pitch for both main and tail rotors, allowing the Pave Low to correct instantly for pitch, roll, yaw, and the effects of unexpected updrafts, downdrafts, crosswinds, and even the jolting change in weight as troops exited the aircraft.
The global positioning satellites were long gone, but our own internal inertial guidance system always tells us exactly where we are, right down to the nearest centimeter.
MacIntyre watched it go, then turned away and consulted his built-in inertial guidance system.