FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming
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FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming
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Re: FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming
#2What kind of deranged person messes with GPS risking to crash an airplane?
Re: FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming
#3What kind of deranged person messes with GPS risking to crash an airplane?
The same kind that shines laser pointers in planes?
Re: FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming
#4What kind of deranged person messes with GPS risking to crash an airplane?
The US military, per the article.
Re: FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming
#5What kind of deranged person messes with GPS risking to crash an airplane?
The DoD wants to ensure their forces can operate if GPS is down.
This requirement should be reasonable to most people who aren’t pacifists. So I think the real question is, why aren’t senior level DoD and FAA bosses doing more to increase safety during the planned outages?
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#7What kind of deranged person messes with GPS risking to crash an airplane?
I shall consult the expert team at 4chan /s
But seriously "We've been told we can't ask to stop jamming, and to just put everyone on headings."... people inbound not ready for this can run out of fuel. Maybe the right passive aggressive response could have been to simply set a really large diameter TFR to keep civilian aircraft away assuming people check NOTAMs.
Re: FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming
#8Are there NOTAMs regarding GPS jamming operations? It's not a fix, but maybe it would allow pilots - specially ones without sophisticated avionics like those founds in airliners(who don't rely on GPS in flight) - to prepare and/or avoid the issue.
Re: FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming
#9What kind of deranged person messes with GPS risking to crash an airplane?
The DoD wants to ensure their forces can operate if GPS is down. This requirement should be reasonable to most people who aren’t pacifists. So I think the real question is, why aren’t senior level DoD and FAA bosses doing more to increase safety during the planned outages?
You can always disable GPS at the edges. Or almost always. And, for the rest, yes, they should at least be talking to each other and publishing NOTAMs when possible (and ensuring the FAA has it covered when it's a surprise drill).
OTOH, would it be possible to have other location services such as Galileo, GLONASS, and BeiDou available as backups (or letting they all vote on your position)?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US military, per the article.
Makes sense. They don't seem to select for social responsibility.
> The complaints accused the FAA of denying controllers permission to ask the military to cut short GPS tests adversely affecting commercial and private aircraft.
The issue according to the article is with the FAA, not the military