FAA report outlines GPS transition strategies
After extensive industry consultation, the FAA has recently completed a document outlining its proposed strategy for transition from today’s terrestrial na

After extensive industry consultation, the FAA has recently completed a document outlining its proposed strategy for transition from today’s terrestrial navaids to GPS, including proposed procedures to minimize the effect of GPS jamming. The document, called the “Navigation and Landing Transition Strategy” and recently obtained by AIN, was prepared in response to Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta’s directive earlier this year to various government operating components to submit their individual GPS transition strategies, including their proposed methods to mitigate GPS interference, for inclusion in an overall federal action plan (AIN, April, page 88).

In turn, the action plan was instigated after publication by the DOT’s Volpe Transportation Center on September 10 last year of its report on GPS interference vulnerability, and the events of the following day.