On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 12:28:58PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2006 04:17, John Pettitt wrote:
>> Keep in mind that civilian commercial air traffic is now using GPS >> so switching it off could lead to unfortunate consequences. > Do you have more info on this? I heard (but that may be outdated) > that precisely because the US wouldn't commit to uphold civilian GPS > globally, commercial airtraffic was forbidden to rely on GPS for > navigation. Well, they have committed to it now; see http://gps.faa.gov/gpsbasics/SA-text.htm http://gps.faa.gov/gpsbasics/SA.htm -- Lionel _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
