Posted on 09/08/2015 5:59:29 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative
A notam issued Sept. 1 announced that, beginning Sept. 2, both ADS-B surveillance and TCAS may be unreliable in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, as well as in airspace extending approximately 200 nautical miles off shore. The situation is expected to last through Oct. 1 as a result of military exercises in the area.
But similar military exercises in the past have caused no interference with civilian ADS-B or TCAS, and AOPA is asking the FAA to explain both why the notam was issued so late and what has changed to raise these new concerns.
(Excerpt) Read more at libertyblitzkrieg.com ...
The Russian bear is snooping around Port Washington, nuke subs.
Now the conspiracy theorists are going to go crazy. Some believe a meteor is going to hit off the East Coast of Virginia on September 23rd this year.
Radar wouldn’t make a difference. It would come in so fast they would barely see it.
FYI
Active Duty ping.
I’m not as concerned they are doing this as much as this seems to be unusual for this to happen.
Isn’t this a warning to aircraft on virtually the entire US east coast for almost an entire month that radar systems may not warn them of close calls ?
And that they need to maintain visual awareness?
Would the military put all the civilian aviation on some of the most heavily trafficked air routes in the US under a risk like this for a month... for an exercise?
There appears to be more going on here that is being reported.
These two YouTube reports show how a really large microwave waveform manifested in the Earth’s atmosphere from August 31, 2015 through September 1, 2015 at 0600 UTC. This waveform was measured by satellites that usually detect water vapor in the atmosphere using microwaves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErpSgWw-pAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzBvi-J3L4
Might be of interest to the list...
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