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Re:Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map by lxgr on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:09PM (#39769368)
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)?
Re:Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map by kube-system on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:15PM (#39769447)
Probably something like this

https://youtu.be/Ynvoriv09Ks?t=105

Re:Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map by lxgr on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:24PM (#39769549)
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 (#39769655)
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 (#39772782)
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.)
Re:Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map by dylan604 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @06:53PM (#39773004)
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?
Re:Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map by blitzar on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @05:49PM (#39772402)
It happens when you are giving the bird.