GPS "Testing"

[Patrick Gray]

All,

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??

Pat KF4MTV

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Doug Gentges <doug.gentges at gmail.com>wrote:

> This seems strange:
>
>
> https://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices/2011/Jan/GPS_Flight_Advisory_CSFTL11-01_Rel.pdf
>
> "The Department of Defense will conduct GPS tests on January 20th
> through February 22nd
> 2011.  During testing, the GPS signal may be unreliable or unavailable."
>
> "During testing, GPS will be unreliable and may be unavailable with in
> a circle with
> a radius of 370NM and centered at 304906N/0802811W or the location known as
> 105.25 degrees and 52.1 NM from the SSI VOR at FL400; decreasing in area
> with
> a decrease in altitude to a circle with a radius of 325NM at FL250; a
> circle with a
> radius of 260NM at 10,000FT MSL and a circle with a radius of 215NM at
> 4,000FT
> AGL."
> (see the PDF for the area that will be impacted, it's off the coast of
> GA/FL
>
> Doug
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