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Re:FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming by aaronfitz on Monday October 11, 2021 @05:58PM (#28833575)
The waves of deactivations on the ground stations have already started. We're on a trajectory of GPS over-reliance.

https://www.boldmethod.com/learn-to-fly/navigation/the-faa-i...

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/may/23/vor...

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Re:FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming by throw0101a on Monday October 11, 2021 @07:35PM (#28834292)
From the first (2016) article:

> 10 years from now, the network of VORs will be about 68% the size it currently is.

So they're cutting about one-third of the VORs by the end of the phase out.

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Re:FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming by dwheeler on Monday October 11, 2021 @09:15PM (#28834917)
Bad idea. Relying on any single technology creates a nasty single point of failure. GPS signals are weak signals from satellites & obviously can be jammed.
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Re:FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming by ericpauley on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @08:35AM (#28838899)
The VOR MON is structured to provide a usable (for safety purposes) backstop should GPS fail, so from a safety perspective this isn’t making us more reliant.
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