Military exercise to make East Coast air traffic collision avoidance systems unreliable for entire m

[Angelina]

It seems that the Air Traffic control system in the airspace over Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida will be shutdown due to a late notice Military defense exercise.

http://www.sott.net/article/301262-Military-exercise-to-make-East-Coast-air-traffic-collision-avoidance-systems-unreliable-for-entire-month-of-September...

Wonder whats really going on????

 

[Angelina]

For some reason...that link no-longer works. Here's another...
https://www.intellihub.com/alert-air-traffic-collision-warning-systems-locators-down-off-east-coast-and-5-states-until-oct-1/

 

[lforrest]

Without air traffic control the planes wouldn't fly. People and politicians wouldn't put up with that. Now if it were for a few hours at night, perhaps it wouldn't cause a big disruption, and could be used for military training.

Now that the link works, I see only the air collision avoidance system will going down speraticly. Most likely it is going to be upgraded.

 

[Angelina]

Here it is again from the National Business Aviation Association

https://www.nbaa.org/ops/airspace/regional/20150901-tcas-adsb-unreliable-in-southeast-united-states-beginning-september-2.php

 

[lforrest]

So it looks like the cause for the disruption will be radio interference.

 

[Angelina]

I just thought that it was interesting...the TCAS is an on-board system that ensures the safety of the aircraft within close proximity of other air traffic. This as well as ADS-B would mean that most aircraft would have to rely on visual means of determining whether another craft is too close and it would mean that the pilot may have to take drastic action accordingly. The airspace where tracking is considered "unreliable" is seemingly large.

 

[heretoeternity]

Could it be another 9/11 in the making?...There were many airforce aircraft drills being conducted on 9/11 which disabled NORAD to respond to real threats...hmmmm interesting