FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming

Re:FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming by RattleyCooper on Monday October 11, 2021 @06:41PM (#28833917)

Lol, I'm not saying pilots CAN'T operate without GPS (I fly hang gliders and I used to fly with literally no instruments at all).

Think of it this way. A person can live a normal life with 1 arm, 1 leg or even 1 eye or ear. Is it ideal? Probably not. If you lose your other arm, leg, eye/ear it's going to cause many more problems than just losing 1.

Losing any backups in aviation is a less-than-ideal situation. That was the only point I was trying to make. OF COURSE pilots can operate a plane without GPS, my god I'd hope they could. I feel like that kind of goes without saying.

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Re:FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming by yutyut on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:34AM (#28836736)

You’re making a lot of specious arguments. I think your laymen’s logic checks out just fine here but that’s not how aviation works…and for good reason.

Taking off with 1 of 2 engines is a lot different than taking off with inoperative avionics. The FAA and airlines dictate what minimum equipment is required for any given aircraft to be airworthy and it’s a fairly robust document that takes into account myriad situations and flight conditions.

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