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In particular, a new mathematical model is presented which makes it possible to determine the resultant position of an aircraft based on the solution for the method of least squares in a stochastic process. The developed method combines in the process of alignment of GPS (Global Positioning System) observations, three independent solutions of the aircraft position in OTF mode for geocentric coordinates XYZ of the aircraft. Measurement weights as a function of the vector length and the mean vector length error, respectively, were used in the calculations. The applied calculation method makes it possible to determine the resultant position of the aircraft with high accuracy: better than 0.039 m with using the measurement weight as a function of the vector length and better than 0.009 m with the measurement weight as a function of the mean error of the vector length, respectively. In relation to the classical RTK-OTF solution as a model of the arithmetic mean, the proposed method makes it possible to increase the accuracy of determination of the aircraft position by 45\u201346% using the measurement weight as a function of the vector length, and 86\u201388% using the measurement weight as a function of the mean error of the vector length, respectively. The obtained test results show that the developed method improves to significantly improve the accuracy of the RTK-OTF solution as a method for determining the reference position in air navigation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22010021","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,22]],"date-time":"2021-12-22T01:08:09Z","timestamp":1640135289000},"page":"21","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["New Methodology of Designation the Precise Aircraft Position Based on the RTK GPS Solution"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9821-4450","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kamil","family":"Krasuski","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Navigation, Polish Air Force University, 08-521 D\u0119blin, Poland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3984-0846","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Adam","family":"Cie\u0107ko","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland"}]},{"given":"Mieczys\u0142aw","family":"Baku\u0142a","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Navigation, Polish Air Force University, 08-521 D\u0119blin, Poland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9252-7624","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Grzegorz","family":"Grunwald","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6192-3894","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Damian","family":"Wierzbicki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Imagery Intelligence, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Military University of Technology, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"45","article-title":"Application the GPS Code Observations in BSSD Method for Recovery the Position of the Aircraft","volume":"11","author":"Krasuski","year":"2017","journal-title":"J. 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