Re:FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: U...
by angry_octet on Sunday January 24, 2021 @07:28PM
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Ah no. Directional GPS jamming is quite effective with an easily sourced satellite TV dish, a tripod and some straight forward electronics. You can even point it at a plane using their own ADS-B signal.
PPDs are omnidirectional, but quite hard to precisely geolocate when intermittent and moving, as was the case in the well known Newark events (which shut down a major airport).
Airports with difficult approach (like the old Kai Tak in HK) could easily result in CFIT with only small errors, let alone other aircraft.
In practice, the aircraft will do a go around then proceed with ATC vectoring or inertial navigation.