All,<br><br>At work we were told of this only a couple days ago (we are running a GPS based air traffic system for the FAA) not exactly timely, and why would they run this in a major air corridor in the SE US??<br><br>Pat KF4MTV <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Doug Gentges <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doug.gentges@gmail.com">doug.gentges@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
This seems strange:<br>
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<a href="https://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices/2011/Jan/GPS_Flight_Advisory_CSFTL11-01_Rel.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices/2011/Jan/GPS_Flight_Advisory_CSFTL11-01_Rel.pdf</a><br>
<br>
"The Department of Defense will conduct GPS tests on January 20th<br>
through February 22nd<br>
2011. During testing, the GPS signal may be unreliable or unavailable."<br>
<br>
"During testing, GPS will be unreliable and may be unavailable with in<br>
a circle with<br>
a radius of 370NM and centered at 304906N/0802811W or the location known as<br>
105.25 degrees and 52.1 NM from the SSI VOR at FL400; decreasing in area with<br>
a decrease in altitude to a circle with a radius of 325NM at FL250; a<br>
circle with a<br>
radius of 260NM at 10,000FT MSL and a circle with a radius of 215NM at 4,000FT<br>
AGL."<br>
(see the PDF for the area that will be impacted, it's off the coast of GA/FL<br>
<br>
Doug<br>
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