[geeks] GPS on planes

Thomas Gallaway tgallaway at comcast.net
Sat Jul 26 18:46:49 CDT 2003


Are the not using WAAS and GPS to give it better accuracy? But how 
could somebody using a GPS receiver prevent their GPS receiver from 
working?

On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 07:38 PM, Scott Howard wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:30:12PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>> The problem with using GPS on an airplane is that the pilots also use
>> GPS. Your handheld receiver is very likely to prevent theirs from 
>> working.
>
> Commercial airlines do NOT use GPS for navigation.  End of story.
>
>   Scott
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