GPS interference in the Coming Days - Careful when Flying
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reuben
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Guys,

Check out this article

http://gizmodo.com/faa-warns-of-gps-outages-this-month-during-mysterious-t-1780866590
  
The FAA issued an advisory warning pilots on Saturday that global positioning systems (GPS) could be unreliable during six different days this month, primarily in the Southwestern United States.
  
  
Here are the dates:
  
  
Fly safe peeps ;-)
  
  
Here's a vid from my country - I'm on the other side of the world (sorry I'm trying get more views)
  


Cheers,

Bye :-)
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malvern
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Does this mean a mass migration of lost Drones will be wondering around in the sky?
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Nice video and great scenery.
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DJI-Paladin Posted at 2016-6-8 13:28
Nice video and great scenery.

Just a Curious question: Does this outage affect American GPS Sats reception only, or is Russian GLONASS Sat Reception affected as well??

BTW Reuben - Lovely Video.. what a fantastic place you live in!!!
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malvern Posted at 2016-6-7 20:53
Does this mean a mass migration of lost Drones will be wondering around in the sky?

Till their batteries die or smth :p

#some will make it... others will die trying
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DJI-Paladin Posted at 2016-6-8 07:28
Nice video and great scenery.

Thank You :-)
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Here are the dates:
On June 7, 9, 21, 23, 28, and 30th the GPS [url=https://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices/2016/Jun/CHLK_16-08_GPS_Flight_Advisory.pdf]interference testing will be taking place between 9:30am and 3:30pm Pacific time.

BwaHahahahaha!

Be prepared to see Aliens land on those days!!!

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dji-p3p1 Posted at 2016-6-8 08:02
Just a Curious question: Does this outage affect American GPS Sats reception only, or is Russian GL ...

Thank You...

I think they are going to jam all GPS type signals... within that region... so to be effective, they should indeed be blocking GLONASS too... but that's just a guess...
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dji-p3p1 Posted at 2016-6-8 08:10
Here are the dates:
On June 7, 9, 21, 23, 28, and 30th the GPS interference testing will be taking p ...

Funny coincidence - Independence day resurgences comes out on the 24th :p
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Wow nice place....
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