GPS Testing Ft Walton Beach (Destin)

[mscard88]

FAA Safety Team | Safer Skies Through Education
FLIGHT ADVISORY GPS INTERFERENCE TESTING December 02-15, 2017 Fort Walton Beach, FL.
Notice Number: NOTC7509



FLIGHT ADVISORY
GPS INTERFERENCE TESTING
GULF AREA FREQUENCY COORDINATOR
(GAFC) 17-10
December 02-15, 2017
Fort Walton Beach, FL.

Additional information:

https://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices/2017/Nov/GAFC_17-10_GPS_Flight_Advisory.pdf

 

[Shepherd]

That is a heck of an area to lose GPS.
Those guys at Eglin shoot real bullets if you wander into the wrong area.

 

[frfly172]

Be looking for flight following ,when in that area.

 

[1RTK1]

Is all this testing really needed?

 

[mscard88]

Be looking for flight following ,when in that area.

Required there anyway.

https://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/course_content.aspx?cID=47&sID=280&preview=true

https://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/course_content.aspx?cID=47&sID=281&preview=true

 

[mscard88]

Is all this testing really needed?

Eglin has a test wing that tests weapons there. Just about every aerial weapon in the Gulf War and ongoing wars now were tested at Eglin. That's the main mission at Eglin. A lot of other stuff goes on there so I'm sure it's needed or they wouldn't be doing it. Price of freedom.

Served 4 years there in ATC, cool place, like an airshow every day.

 

[1RTK1]

Sounds reasonable. What purpose does it serve to block gps? Just curious.

 

[mscard88]

Sounds reasonable. What purpose does it serve to block gps? Just curious.

I don't really know. Could be related to a weapon they're testing but I don't know that. Sorry.

 

[Ken Ibold]

Required there anyway.

https://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/course_content.aspx?cID=47&sID=280&preview=true

https://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/course_content.aspx?cID=47&sID=281&preview=true

Plus Destin just opened their spankin' new control tower.