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Re:Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modification... by londons_explore on Saturday November 29, 2025 @01:55AM (#46085642)
I think it more likely these receivers fell for a spoof GPS signal or some software bug internal to the receiver than a solar bitflip.
Re:Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modification... by tonyarkles on Saturday November 29, 2025 @11:04AM (#46088550)
In our case I don’t believe it was solar bitflips but rather wildly changing ionospheric conditions. I was primarily pointing out how you can have a software-only fix for problems like this.

Without going too far into the weeds, the fact that the receivers in question were reporting high accuracy under uncertainty is definitely a software bug in the receivers from my perspective. There was a different receiver with a completely different chipset in it on-site too that was experiencing similar issues but was reporting low accuracy. Without going into too much detail, I’ve got pretty good reasons to believe it wasn’t spoofing.