I really wish people would stop messing with our GPS.
First LightSquared proposed (and the FCC conditionally accepted) a network for terrestrial broadband Internet that would have destroyed GPS navigation throughout the United States. In defense of LightSquared, however, it did say that in order to head off most interference issues, it would be happy to let pilots install elaborate filters in their GPS devices — at the pilots' expense, of course — to overcome the interference the LightSquared network would cause. That is very thoughtful of LightSquared.
Click on this link for the full story from Flying Magazine.
Use an iPad, Go to Jail | Flying Magazine | The World’s Most Widely Read Aviation Magazine
First LightSquared proposed (and the FCC conditionally accepted) a network for terrestrial broadband Internet that would have destroyed GPS navigation throughout the United States. In defense of LightSquared, however, it did say that in order to head off most interference issues, it would be happy to let pilots install elaborate filters in their GPS devices — at the pilots' expense, of course — to overcome the interference the LightSquared network would cause. That is very thoughtful of LightSquared.
Click on this link for the full story from Flying Magazine.
Use an iPad, Go to Jail | Flying Magazine | The World’s Most Widely Read Aviation Magazine
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