FAA To Take Regulatory Action Over 5G Altimeter Interference

[douglas9]

The FAA plans to issue a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin and an Airworthiness Directive in coming days concerning the rollout of 5G cellular phone service in 46 major metropolitan areas of the U.S. on Dec. 5, according to Reuters. The actions are expected to limit the use of automated systems on aircraft that rely on radar altimeters (also called radio altimeters) and it’s possible that flight delays and cancellations will result. Reuters also quoted a letter from FAA Deputy Administrator Bradley Mims that says the agency shares “the deep concern about the potential impact to aviation safety resulting from interference to radar altimeter performance from 5G network operations in the C band.”

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/faa-to-take-regulatory-action-over-5g-interference/

[bahboo]

1. and of course I'm flying then....jesus.....

[Silent3]

2. I can't tell from the article whether the signals from 5G towers, 5G phones, or both...

...is where the concern about interference comes from. It certainly does, however, sound like poor aviation equipment design if transmissions in a different, even if nearby, part of the radio spectrum are problematic.

If this is a significant risk, that radar equipment should have been mandated for upgrade or replacement before 5G systems were rolled out.

[PoliticAverse]

3. If you are flying and your phone supports 5G, please make doubly sure the phone is turned off...

(and everyone else's too).

[2naSalit]

4. Yup. Not flying again for a while...

And I'm good with that. This 5G stuff is a bit skeevy in my opinion.

Technology was supposed to... do what exactly, again? I am thinking, these days, that it will be the death of us instead.

[Disaffected]

6. Probably will be.

Ever wonder why we have not detected alien civilizations yet? One good possibility is that technological civilizations have a tendency to destroy themselves, we here on earth being a very good contender.

[Phoenix61]

5. There's also concern about it interfering

with systems to predict/track hurricanes.