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Internet jammer can be bought for $55, can bring down plane, say experts
Fox News via Herald Sun ^
| 18 March 2010
| John Brandon
Posted on 03/17/2010 6:04:52 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
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To: bitterohiogunclinger
It would make a Boeing 777 fly like a Boeing 767. If the 777 lost GPS, we’d get a message in the cockpit, then go back to drinking coffee and finishing the crossword.
To: Aussie Dasher
Zero chance this works on military GPS. ...and very little chance it will work on mission critical aviation grade GPS in general.
Yeah, it’ll screw with the tiny chip and antenna in an iPhone, but that wasn’t designed to keep an airplane on course.
To: Aussie Dasher
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posted on
03/17/2010 6:39:45 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Aussie Dasher
Let’s see, since we have the hardwire phone lines at the Capitol jammed, let’s jam all of the cell phones there too. ;)
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posted on
03/17/2010 6:40:42 PM PDT
by
Never on my watch
(Duty, Honor, Country - not Diversity)
To: ALPAPilot
You guys use those little kitchen timers to avoid passing up your destination airports?
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posted on
03/17/2010 6:43:43 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
To: Aussie Dasher
There are so many different ways of navigating an aircraft losing GPS would warrant maybe a shrug and a “well that sucks”.
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posted on
03/17/2010 6:49:21 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
To: Aussie Dasher
To: Aussie Dasher
This would be a short range jammer, so it would have to used in close range to an aircraft GPS antenna to jam. The GPS antenna would be on the outside and the jammer would be on the inside of the metallic or graphite fiber conducting cabin which would attenuate the jammer signal, so it might be in doubt the wild claims of being able to bring down an airplane from a weak signal that is just used for navigation, its not like the noise would cause a nose dive. Furthermore the whole idea that cell phone emissions can bring down an aircraft is false as well, although true there can be noise that could effect electronics, the attenuation is high, cell phone bans are as much or more a reason for keeping people quite as much as a safety issue which is blown out of proportion. IMHO
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posted on
03/17/2010 6:53:20 PM PDT
by
seastay
To: Aussie Dasher
Last night had moron drive car into flooded street next to Pasaic River. Cops asked why he was driving there and
avoiding barricades. Said GPS told himt to go that way...
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posted on
03/17/2010 7:00:19 PM PDT
by
njslim
To: dragnet2
You guys use those little kitchen timers to avoid passing up your destination airports? Only if the flight attendant on are lap doesn't have an alarm on her wristwatch.
To: Boiler Plate
The counter measure is just as simple, If it emits a signal it can be found with an inexpensive hand held directional receiver.
And effective action can be taken with a .40 directional ... transmitter.
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posted on
03/17/2010 7:01:20 PM PDT
by
RobinOfKingston
(Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
To: ALPAPilot
You guys use those little kitchen timers to avoid passing up your destination airports? Only if the flight attendant on our lap doesn't have an alarm on her wristwatch.
To: Fresh Wind
How would jamming the Internet bring down a plane? I guess they are talking about online flight simulator games here.
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posted on
03/17/2010 7:03:13 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: Fresh Wind
No one said anything about jamming the I’net. It jams gps signals.
To: ALPAPilot
I flew for years with no GPS at all and never once did I crash. Didn’t even have LORAN, for that matter.
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posted on
03/17/2010 7:04:42 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: chooseascreennamepat
What does the TITLE say, bonehead?
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posted on
03/17/2010 7:05:19 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: Aussie Dasher
But what about Blonde*star?
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posted on
03/17/2010 7:06:07 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("Shut it down" Rush Limbaugh, 3/3/10)
To: ALPAPilot
Only if the flight attendant on our lap doesn't have an alarm on her wristwatch. Hmmm...
The last flight attendants I saw were all homo's with attitudes.
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posted on
03/17/2010 7:11:33 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
To: dalereed
“There are currently GPS instrument approaches but not at commercial airports.”
There are numerous GPS approaches at commercial as well as rural airports. I am an Instrument Flight Instructor and I’m PIC daily in a Cessna Citation jet.
To: bitterohiogunclinger
GPS approaches are becoming the norm in the aviation industry.
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