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Re:FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: U... by toomuchtodo on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:35PM (#25888053)
I would also be worried about systems like Cirrus’ VisionJet Safe Return, that turn the aircraft into an autonomous vehicle if a passenger activates the system due to an incapacitated pilot, as GPS is required for its automated path planning to autonomously return to an airport and land.

I haven’t investigated, but I would be curious how such a system responds when GPS is degraded or unavailable.

Re:FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: U... by lovecg on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:39PM (#25888529)
That’s already a rare event though, so the probability of it coinciding with a GPS outage is smaller still. Time integral of risk exposure and all that.
Re:FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: U... by danaliv on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:17PM (#25896738)
Rare as it is—and I’d argue it’s not as rare as some people think, having experience three avionics GPS loss-of-signal events in the past two years (in different aircraft)—they’d be nuts not to have considered that risk in the design. I can’t find the AFM supplement for Safe Return but to a first approximation, it wouldn’t be out of the question for it to go into a heading and altitude hold until it reaquires.
Re:FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: U... by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:33PM (#25888479)
Surely they also use GLONASS and Galileo.