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Airplane taxiing is manual. ATC can tell the plane to use runway A, and the plane can check that A is free, but neither will stop the pilot from accidentally st
by resolutebat 3y ago
Airplane taxiing is manual. ATC can tell the plane to use runway A, and the plane can check that A is free, but neither will stop the pilot from accidentally steering into runway B.
- Aeolun 3y agoThere’s nothing preventing airplanes from knowing the coordinates of every runway in the world and working out the truth using GPS though.
- konschubert 3y agoModern passenger airplanes absolutely do have runway maps.
- lxgr 3y agoThis would elevate the impact of GPS spoofing from a minor or major [1] nuisance to a significant terrorism threat. [1] https://ops.group/blog/new-gps-spoofing-incident-shows-how-it-works/ https://ops.group/blog/new-gps-spoofing-incident-shows-how-i...
- Aeolun 3y agoOnly if you rely on it for your positioning 100%. Presumably none of the existing measures would change.