Re:Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map
by lxgr on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:09PM
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How does an airplane "point their GPS receiver at the ground" (for an extended period of time since a combined GNSS/INS positioning solution, which is what all airliners use at this point as far as I know, will need an extended signal loss to report decreased accuracy)?
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Re:Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map
by kube-system on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:15PM
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Probably something like this
Ah, is this Ryanair's plan to divest from their all-Boeing fleet? :)
It should be pretty simple for Flightradar24 to exclude non-commercial aircraft from the data through, which would solve that problem.
There's also tons of data available in the ADS-B signal that should help distinguish between aircraft-motion-induced outages and actual jamming: https://mode-s.org/decode/content/ads-b/7-uncertainty.html
Re:Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map
by kube-system on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:31PM
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From the FAQ, it sounds like they simply presume that anywhere with multiple low NIC values is indicative of interference.
> The GPS interference data is derived from NIC (navigation integrity category) values that we receive as part of the ADS-B protocol. We mark regions as affected if a significant number of flights in that area report lowered NIC values.
Re:Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map
by jjwiseman on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @06:29PM
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Unfortunately some of the data that's most directly applicable to determining aircraft attitude, like roll, is optional and rarely sent by aircraft, but yes I'm sure you could do a decent job of inferring maneuvering from change in heading and vertical rate (especially if you're looking at ADS-B data with high temporal resolution vs., say, every 10-60 seconds.)
on a pure radar scan, what would return of formation flying like this look like to a radar operator? is it just one large dot, or can they distinguish the number of planes in the formation?