- May 18, 2021, 12:47 PM
During an NBAA News Hour session on May 14, experts summarized the status of problems caused by military GPS jamming tests. This type of testing continues to grow and is causing GPS reception outages for all types of flight operations, and there is no plan by the military to reduce GPS jamming training operations.
“We’ve seen the number of GPS interference events have nearly quadrupled in the past decade,” said NBAA director of air traffic services and infrastructure Heidi Williams. “The number of locations across the National Airspace System [NAS] where those jamming events occur has doubled in the last two to three years. So we’re seeing a proliferation of events and locations.” She added that it’s likely the impact of this GPS jamming testing is growing. “It’s fair to say that the events are often a safety concern for operators in the NAS and are profound when they do have an impact.”