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While it may be true that jamming a VOR signal is unlikely to cause a crash without other co-incidental bad luck, consider this: The localizer portion of ILS op
by bathat 14y ago
While it may be true that jamming a VOR signal is unlikely to cause a crash without other co-incidental bad luck, consider this: The localizer portion of ILS operates on those frequencies, too.
I don't think it's all that far-fetched to imagine that an unfiltered transmitter like the one described could generate signals which 'trick' the localizer receiver and guide a low-flying airplane into an obstruction which is technically outside, yet near, the approach path. (The wikipedia page on ILS describes how it works, so I won't repeat it here.) AMing the right carrier with 150 and 90 Hz tones (which really means generating carrier + and - 150 Hz and carrier + and - 90 Hz) would cause the localizer to show the plane centered on the glide path, even if it isn't.
- lucaspiller 14y agoI agree that if you intentionally try to jam it using something like this you may be able to, however to unintentionally as a side effect of mucking around with FM transmissions seems unlikely. Also I suspect the actual ILS transmitters are a lot more powerful, so unless you have this on the plane it probably wouldn't do anything.