Solar flares and GPS receivers

[mgibbs]

An article I came across today for interest :

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0609/27gpsfailures/

Mark
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[lbendlin]

This has actually been reported before. Not sure why they make a big fuzz about it again... I would think that planes will always be required to have alternative instruments like barometric altimeters and distance radars etc...
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