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Brad
I could use a clarification on the use of this phrase - preferably from one of our resident ATC folks. There are countless threads on needing to be able to navigate without GPS. This question is specifically about the use of this phraseology. Is this actually a phrase pilots are supposed to use and ATC must act on?
At our little airport someone has mentioned (each time there is a GPS outage notification) that if you're finding yourself in a emergency situation during a listed GPS outtage and you need your GPS that you can simply tell ATC: "Stop Buzzer". Then ATC is supposed to tell the authority doing the jamming to stop it due to the pilot emergency.
But this sort of feels more like something being parroted around vs based on the FAR's, etc..
All I can really find is on the Pilot/Controller Glossary PCGS-7 and PCGS-8. "Stop Buzzer" and "Stop Burst" reference "Stop Stream". Then "Stop Stream" contains this:
STOP STREAM− Used by ATC to request a pilot to suspend electronic attack activity.
(See JAMMING.)
...so looking up jamming I find:
JAMMING− Electronic or mechanical interference which may disrupt the display of aircraft on radar or the transmission/reception of radio communications/ navigation.
....and it all seems to end there.
So is the use of the phrase actually a valid request / instruction from a pilot to ATC. The way it reads it sounds more like the phrase a tower controller would give to a pilot knowingly jamming.
At our little airport someone has mentioned (each time there is a GPS outage notification) that if you're finding yourself in a emergency situation during a listed GPS outtage and you need your GPS that you can simply tell ATC: "Stop Buzzer". Then ATC is supposed to tell the authority doing the jamming to stop it due to the pilot emergency.
But this sort of feels more like something being parroted around vs based on the FAR's, etc..
All I can really find is on the Pilot/Controller Glossary PCGS-7 and PCGS-8. "Stop Buzzer" and "Stop Burst" reference "Stop Stream". Then "Stop Stream" contains this:
STOP STREAM− Used by ATC to request a pilot to suspend electronic attack activity.
(See JAMMING.)
...so looking up jamming I find:
JAMMING− Electronic or mechanical interference which may disrupt the display of aircraft on radar or the transmission/reception of radio communications/ navigation.
....and it all seems to end there.
So is the use of the phrase actually a valid request / instruction from a pilot to ATC. The way it reads it sounds more like the phrase a tower controller would give to a pilot knowingly jamming.