Barometric altimeters are most common, and measure altitude above sea level using atmospheric pressure. Modern commercial ...
The Federal Aviation Administration will give airlines another year to fix or replace airplane altimeters that can’t filter out cellular transmissions from outside their allotted frequencies. In a ...
Update: Two of the nation’s largest network carriers, Verizon and AT&T confirmed today that they've agreed to temporarily pause rolling out 5G service to allow the FAA more time to address concerns ...
The Federal Aviation Administration is warning aerospace manufactures and aircraft operators that 5G cellular wireless communications could impact radio altimeters starting in December. A Special ...
The Federal Aviation Administration plans to require all transport aircraft have updated altimeters by February 2024, citing concern about a potential “catastrophic incident” caused by interference ...
The Federal Aviation Administration is asking aircraft manufacturers, operators, and companies that build radio altimeters to submit feedback on altimeter design and performance near 5G wireless ...
Illustration from RTCA report, Assessment of C-Band Mobile Telecommunications Interference Impact On Low Range Radar Altimeter Operations. Credit: RTCA In my last The Crosscheck column, I wrote about ...
In “The 5G Threat to Radio Altimeter Use” (column, Jan. 3),the author fails to understand how embedded radio altimeter signals have become in modern jet aircraft, or he simply makes light of the ...