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The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks
(www.wired.com)
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this post was submitted on 01 May 2024
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This sounds legitimately annoying... But why is this canceling flights? Do the pilots not carry maps? Plus, they're in the air, can't they rely on radar guidance? They may have radar on the aircraft, but there's definitely ground based radar as well.
Pilots are very well trained, they should be able to handle this... What did pilots do in 1970, before gps existed?
There was a civilian airplane that mistakenly drifted into Soviet airspace and was shot down back in the 1983, killing everyone on board. Pilots can train for scenarios requiring manual operation, but that doesn't mean they should only rely on human perception, especially when it involves other people's lives.