The Federal Aviation Administration has notified pilots and other users of GPS that GPS-based services including Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), the Ground Based Augmentation System, and the Wide Area Augmentation System could be lost in a radius extending several hundred miles from a Carrier Strike Group located off the coast of Georgia during February 6 to 10th. GPS testing is scheduled which may result in unreliable or unavailable GPS signals caused by.the offshore military operation center.
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has pressed the FAA to address flight-safety concerns raised by the large-scale national security exercises in which GPS signals are degraded to test defense systems and preparedness.
The AOPA said today, "The FAA posted a flight advisory that gives the schedule of the tests that could degrade GPS from the Caribbean and Florida north to Pennsylvania, and as far west as eastern Louisiana, while a strike force is conducting a training operation off the Georgia coast. Notices to airmen have been issued for airspace in eight of the FAA’s Air Route Traffic Control Centers."
AOPA "estimates that more than 2,000 airports—home bases to more than 28,600 aircraft—are located within the area’s lowest airspace contour."
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