Well well well, anybody think they won’t deploy this throughout the country?
FAA notifies...
More:
The FAA issued an advisory warning pilots on Saturday that global positioning systems (GPS) could be unreliable during six different days this month, primarily in the Southwestern United States. On June 7, 9, 21, 23, 28, and 30th the GPS interference testing will be taking place between 9:30am and 3:30pm Pacific time. But if you’re on the ground, you probably won’t notice interference.
The testing will be centered on China Lake, California—home to the Navy’s 1.1 million acre Naval Air Weapons Center in the Mojave Desert. The potentially lost signals will stretch hundreds of miles in each direction and will affect various types of GPS, reaching the furthest at higher altitudes. But the jamming will only affect aircraft above 5,000 feet. As you can see from the FAA map below, the jamming will almost reach the California-Oregon border at 4o,000 feet above sea level and 505 nautical miles at its greatest range.
No matter the mode of transport, it’s a pretty good idea to have a clue how to navigate without the technology.
Who needs GPS when charts and a watch are had pretty easily.
Lots of people know how to use paper road maps, but how many can fold them properly?
“driverless” cars use GPS. How would this work out if all cars were “driverless” as some people would like to see?
that’s gonna upset the ramadan festivities... how will they find their targets.
Could it be they are anticipating a major shift in GPS location of significant portions of this area?
It would be impossible to have regional GPS outages if the GPS system were satellite based.
This is evidence that GPS is ground based. It is merely an extension of an earlier technology (WWII) named LORAN.
You can test this by driving south into Mexico from California. You GPS signal will diminish and disappear as you drive south.
Interesting fact:
All GPS satellites were built by Rockwell International, Seal Beach, CA. (Now Boeing Space and Communications Group)
I had an office there back in the mid-80s when I worked for the Defense Dept.
is this that scam company invested by Obama?
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Gotta believe this is defensive technology to protect from GPS guided bad things.
I seem to remember this happening last year too.
Can’t jam a compass.
Wonder what the scheduled airlines will have to say about that?