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All landings and departures at Paine Field were canceled on Monday as 5G poses risk for regional jets
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — On Monday, Alaska Airlines' regional subsidiary Horizon Air suspended all flights in and out of the Paine Field to avoid 5G interference, as fog shrouded the airport. (www.airlinerwatch.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I've been out of it for a good while now. But "back in the day". the GCA accomplished the landing. There were other requirements, not the least of which was the pilot's certification. Then, you could see the desire to take the machine out of the pilot's hands and do all of this automatically. Glad I left it when I did, in hindsight.
Signal encoding has been around for 40 years and the electronics evolution since tells me there is/should have been easy signal separation - even with same frequencies.
Show the world the evidence.
Please explain to my simple mind why the companies installing 5g can not help commercial aircraft owners and manufacturers upgrade the systems that are failing or could fail? Seems to be in both of their best interests and the general flying public's as well.
The telcos have bought the right to use a bunch of frequencies. Radar altimeters *might* have been poorly engineered and need those frequencies to be unused, despite no-one having bought them. This has been brewing for 2 years but no-one got round to checking whether radar altimeters do actually need the frequencies until 16 Jan, at which point they found that radar altimeters (installed by Boeing and Airbus) made in the last 16-24 years are in fact OK.
Why would other modern radar altimeters be different?
Why would other modern radar altimeters be different?
That would require collaboration for a common good involving government agencies and associated costs to each so, , , hahah -good one on that idea seeing the light of day at this point unless the government steps in and mandates something that it, in effect, allowed to happen in the first place. Greed is an underlying and powerful theme here. The telco's got the green light from the FCC so the horse was let out of the barn. Oops, FCC did not consult with the FAA? Too late, the horse named Telco left the barn already. Personalities, egos, and territory are in serious play at this point so, to quote Vonnegut Jr.: Welcome to the Monkey House