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America Has a GPS Problem
Spoofing or otherwise interfering with GPS satellite signals is cheap and easy now thanks to gadgets costing as little as $20. Teens and delivery drivers use these to cloak their whereabouts. In 2013 a trucker reportedly interfered with KEWR's tracking system after activating a GPS jamming device in his vehicle. GPS' vulnerability has made it ripe for tampering by U.s. adversaries, criminal organizations and other bad actors. At the end of 2018 Congress mandated creation of a… (www.nytimes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Was the GPS IFR certified? I’m just curious because IFR certified GPS’s should be all but guaranteed to report ‘GPS Signal Lost’ before providing any erroneous position data. A non-certified unit will be much more forgiving of weak signals and will calculate a position if it is at all possible, sometimes pretty far off.
Definitely sounds like a Twilight Zone episode, especially considering the radio calls you heard that you should not have heard.
Definitely sounds like a Twilight Zone episode, especially considering the radio calls you heard that you should not have heard.
Well - This informative article made it half way through the comments before turning political.........
Our over abundence of reliance on technology such as GPS shows how far we have gone backwards instead of forwards. There was a reason once abundant radio technologies that had been around for 70+ years got people where they needed to be, they worked and were less likely to be spoofed or jammed, though any radio wave could be.
I too am able to read a map, and with technologies like GPS, it is becoming a lost art.
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I too am able to read a map, and with technologies like GPS, it is becoming a lost art.
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This counts as much on Loran-c as gps. Loran-c is even easier to jam or take out.
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He has not had that problem since so we don't think it was our equipment. It was very odd that we had a GPS and radio problem at the same time on the same night and it never happened again. I was very happy it was clear as a bell VFR conditions and we had plenty of fuel to figure it out. Was there some sort of GPS jamming going on? But that would not explain the radio problem. It felt like a Twilight Zone episode. The experience reaffirmed that relying on one technology for navigation in IFR conditions could spell disaster.