planned GPS outage on the west coast

harold1946 wrote:
Are there that many RVrs that travel at 40,000 feet or even 50

Exactly....not an RV topic but whatever. :S

Moved from General RV'ing forum.

harold1946 wrote:
Are there that many RVrs that travel at 40,000 feet or even 50

Not that I know of,,, but, that would be COOl !! :C

Are there that many RVrs that travel at 40,000 feet or even 50

agesilaus wrote:
... You have to wonder why they don't try it out over Johnson Atoll or some other isolated spot. ...

Too hard to move the technology from China Lake. More info here.

China Lake, which tests weapons and avionics for tactical aircraft, encompasses 1.1 million acres, which makes it larger than Rhode Island.

Should only be a problem if your RV or car is 50 feet off the ground.

The testing centered at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division based in China Lake, Calif., could affect aircraft at least 50 feet off the ground within hundreds of miles of the base to as high as 40,000 feet above sea level nearly 550 miles away.

gbopp wrote:
I think the article said it will only be disabled for aircraft above 40,000 feet.

If they turned it off in a populated area, some people couldn't find their way to or from work.

Yes that's what the linked article said right at the beginning:

"Starting today and continuing intermittently until the 30th of June, the Navy is doing something that will knock out GPS signals in the Mojave Desert. They won't say what that something is, though.

The FAA has issued a warning to all "aircraft that rely on GPS," (your bi-plane is fine) that once someone gets around 40,000 feet in the air on the 7th, 9th, 21st, 23rd, 28th, and 30th of June, between 9:30am and 3:30pm, their GPS will not work."

kalynzoo wrote:
So how many people will get lost? We depend on GPS now for so many daily functions, like tracking deliveries, tracking employee vehicles, tracking just about everything. Call for ERS and they track your phone location by GPS. I just hope the DOD knows what it is doing. :)

errrr, the sky is NOT falling

The FAA has issued a warning to all "aircraft that rely on GPS," (your bi-plane is fine) that once someone gets around 40,000 feet in the air on the 7th, 9th, 21st, 23rd, 28th, and 30th of June, between 9:30am and 3:30pm, their GPS will not work.

I think the article said it will only be disabled for aircraft above 40,000 feet.

If they turned it off in a populated area, some people couldn't find their way to or from work.

So how many people will get lost? We depend on GPS now for so many daily functions, like tracking deliveries, tracking employee vehicles, tracking just about everything. Call for ERS and they track your phone location by GPS. I just hope the DOD knows what it is doing. :)

midnightsadie wrote:
there trying to knock any info out of the sky so if the countries over seas send a bomb it,ll get lost.

As good a guess as any. You have to wonder why they don't try it out over Johnson Atoll or some other isolated spot. Probably technical reasons they want to do it over land.