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I had a lot of fun with that gps status app when I first got a smart phone - you could hold your phone up to the window while flying (to get gps signal) and see
by 83 5y ago
I had a lot of fun with that gps status app when I first got a smart phone - you could hold your phone up to the window while flying (to get gps signal) and see the 630mph or whatever speed you were going.
- figers 5y agoI do this with google maps even without an internet connection it shows roughly where we are in the US on a flight
- adamsmith143 5y agoI thought this was disabled above certain speeds to prevent those chips being used in Missiles?
- colechristensen 5y agoFor the limits the speed is 1200 mph and the altitude 59,000 ft. A commercial airliner won’t exceed 650 mph or 40,000 ft.
- Rebelgecko 5y agoI think those are the old COCOM limits which are no longer in effect. I believe that currently the only limit is 600 m/s (which is nice, since when there were both speed and altitude limits some manufacturers OR'd them and some manufacturers AND'd them, so it wasn't clear if altitude alone would be enough to disable a device until you found out the hard way)
- colechristensen 5y agoAh, yeah that's been updated since I've worked with GPS