Re:FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: U...
by nieve on Sunday January 24, 2021 @12:06PM
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This is probably the one you're thinking of:
"The Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300, for instance, entered service in 2009 and has since become the world’s best-selling light jet. In 2016, the FAA warned that if the Phenom 300 encountered an unreliable or unavailable GPS signal, it could enter a Dutch roll (named for a Dutch skating technique), a dangerous combination of wagging and rocking that could cause pilots to lose control. The FAA instructed Phenom 300 owners to avoid all areas of GPS interference."
This recommendation came out because there are multiple cases where pilots have declared emergencies related to GPS jamming but controllers have not requested termination of the jamming because of miscommunication or not realizing that the emergency was related.
This is all pretty new and it has not really been communicated very well, I only know about it because of something I saw in _AOPA Pilot_. It has been reported that some aircraft, I forget which but I believe a light jet, react particularly badly to loss of GPS and it can get as bad as loss of attitude information, potentially as a result of a bug.