Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht

Re:Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $8... by mbrameld on Monday July 29, 2013 @11:54AM (#6121859)

Do you have a source for aircraft flying using GPS alone? My understanding is that they rely on VOR and ILS systems.

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Re:Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $8... by VLM on Monday July 29, 2013 @12:46PM (#6122209)

You can interpret that question a lot of different ways.

For example ultralights are pretty much "You're small and light enough not to cause much damage when you crash; don't do anything stupid". So yes, I am quite sure there are heavier-than-air flying machines carrying humans and a GPS unit as their sole navigational tool. As if you need advanced tools for what a ultralight can actually handle in practice, LOL.

On the other hand if you go to the E-CFR and look at FAA reg 91.205 if you want to climb above/thru FL240 you need a working DME or RNAV kinda implies any commercial operation must have VOR-type gear installed.

Note that the same playback hack that works really well on GPS works even better and easier on old fashioned VOR gear.

Merely being required to have operational gear doesn't mean a little angel is perched on each pilot's shoulder making sure they actually do have the gear, and they know how to use it, and they are actually using it.

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Re:Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $8... by mcguire on Monday July 29, 2013 @12:41PM (#6122170)

http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/ATpubs/AIM/aim01...

(Scroll up to 1-1-19. Global Positioning System (GPS). The FAA's links are all wacky.)

This is the FAA's Aeronautical Information Manual.

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Re:Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $8... by fnordfnordfnord on Monday July 29, 2013 @01:00PM (#6122311)

VOR system is on its way out.

http://aeronav.faa.gov/content/aeronav/acfstatus/Presentatio...

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