{"id":21016,"date":"2016-06-07T19:09:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21016"},"modified":"2016-06-07T19:09:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:09:17","slug":"faa-warns-that-mystery-military-tests-may-lead-to-widespread-west-coast-gps-disruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21016","title":{"rendered":"FAA Warns That Mystery Military Tests May Lead To Widespread West Coast GPS Disruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-06-07\/mysterious-military-tests-may-lead-widespread-west-coast-gps-disruptions-faa-warns\">FAA Warns That Mystery Military Tests May Lead To Widespread West Coast GPS Disruptions<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"node sticky node-type-story node-full node-nid-562971 no-image\" data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Starting today, and continuing for the next month, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faasafety.gov\/files\/notices\/2016\/Jun\/CHLK_16-08_GPS_Flight_Advisory.pdf\">FAA has warned airplane pilots that GPS signals\u00a0<\/a>on on the West Coast, and especially over California and Nevada, may be impacted.<\/p>\n<p>The reason why is not exactly clear, but as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/faa-warns-of-gps-outages-this-month-during-mysterious-t-1780866590\">Gizmodo notes,\u00a0<\/a>the US military will be testing a device or devices that will potentially jam GPS signals for six hours each day. Officially the tests were announced by the FAA but are centered near the US Navy\u2019s largest installation in the Mojave Desert, China Lake, located &#8220;<em>just down the road&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>from Area 51. The Navy has kept silent about the nature of the tests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/04\/china%20lake_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/06\/04\/china%20lake_0_0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>An aerial view of the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">As Gizmodo adds, 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. On June 7, 9, 21, 23, 28, and 30th the GPS interference testing will be taking place between 9:30am and 3:30pm Pacific time. But if you\u2019re on the ground, you probably won\u2019t notice interference.<\/p>\n<p>The dates and times of potential GPS outages per the FAA are shown below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 JUN 16 1630Z \u2013 2230Z<\/li>\n<li>9 JUN 16 1630Z \u2013 2230Z<\/li>\n<li>21 JUN 16 1630Z \u2013 2230Z<\/li>\n<li>23 JUN 16 1630Z \u2013 2230Z<\/li>\n<li>28 JUN 16 1630Z \u2013 2230Z<\/li>\n<li>30 JUN 16 1630Z \u2013 2230Z<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The testing will be centered on China Lake, California\u2014home to the Navy\u2019s 1.1 million acre\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naval_Air_Weapons_Station_China_Lake\">Naval Air Weapons Center in the Mojave Desert<\/a>. The potentially lost signals will stretch hundreds of miles in each direction and will affect various types of GPS, reaching the furthest at higher altitudes. But the jamming will only affect aircraft above 50 feet. As shown in the FAA map below, the jamming will almost reach the California-Oregon border at 4o,000 feet above sea level and 505 nautical miles at its greatest range.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAA Warns That Mystery Military Tests May Lead To Widespread West Coast GPS Disruptions Starting today, and continuing for the next month, the\u00a0FAA has warned airplane pilots that GPS signals\u00a0on on the West Coast, and especially over California and Nevada, may be impacted. The reason why is not exactly clear, but as\u00a0Gizmodo notes,\u00a0the US military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101,1071,14012,8357,14013,12538,1127,4318],"class_list":["post-21016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-california","tag-faa","tag-federal-aviation-authority","tag-gps","tag-military-tests","tag-nevada","tag-us-navy","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21017,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21016\/revisions\/21017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}