NOTAM ID: 06/081 (KZDC)

[M20F]

Anyone know what this is?  Curious more than anything. 
 

 

[Ragsf15e]

2 hours ago, M20F said:

Anyone know what this is?  Curious more than anything. 
 

 

Seems like pretty standard gps jamming notam Ive seen out here.  If it’s southeast of CHS as indicated, maybe a military exercise at the Savanah ranges?  The gps jamming notams are shaped like an upside down wedding cake.

[Ragsf15e]

Looking closer, it’s centered out in the Whiskey areas off Savanah, so probably jamming from a ship, but those Whiskey areas are used for all sorts of training all the time.

[Ragsf15e]

As an aside, the whiskey areas were pretty fun to operate in.  It was as close as you could get to the Brit airspace which can be pretty much a free for all.  Meaning you could takeoff with your wingman to go to the bombing range and on the way there, minding your own business, you get jumped by a Tornado or maybe a Eurofighter now.  No warning, no planning, just keep your eyes open and be ready to react.  We (USAF) scheduled the whiskey areas pretty tightly because it is annoying and potentially dangerous to have random, non briefed aircraft in the middle of your 4v4 fight, but unfortunately (or fortunately), the Navy didn’t subscribe to the theory.  You could easily be fighting 4v6 and wondering who the heck wasn’t supposed to be there until you closed to visual and realized that two “adversaries” were EA-6s in a holding pattern trying to work against the SAM simulator under your CAP that you also didn’t know about.  

[47U]

6 hours ago, M20F said:

Curious more than anything.

Those coords were previously associated with GPS testing in Apr-May by Carrier Strike Group 4…

[M20F]

6 hours ago, 47U said:

Those coords were previously associated with GPS testing in Apr-May by Carrier Strike Group 4…

Thank you for the factual versus the theoretical. 

[47U]

10 hours ago, Ragsf15e said:

Looking closer, it’s centered out in the Whiskey areas off Savanah, so probably jamming from a ship, but those Whiskey areas are used for all sorts of training all the time.

You called it… there’s a lot of restricted airspace off the southeastern coast.  Makes the NTTR and UTTR look small by comparison.

[Ragsf15e]

9 hours ago, M20F said:

Thank you for the factual versus the theoretical. 

You’re on the internet, what do you expect?  Im not your librarian.

[M20F]

2 hours ago, Ragsf15e said:

You’re on the internet, what do you expect?  Im not your librarian.

I expected what @47U posted and thanked them accordingly.  By all means though don’t let me stop you from telling stories about yourself.

[Hector]

Anyone know if the GPS jamming affects only the US constellation or would it also affect Galileo and GLONASS? In addition to my GTN Xi navigator I also have a panel mounted Aera660 which can use other constellations. I’m wondering if my GTN Xi navigator is jammed whether the Aera660 might still work using another constellation.


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[MikeOH]

6 hours ago, M20F said:

I expected what @47U posted and thanked them accordingly.  By all means though don’t let me stop you from telling stories about yourself.

Hmm, then perhaps you should have requested a Harvard Bluebook citation upon which you could legally rely upon, rather than, "Curious more than anything"