The Federal Aviation Administration will give airlines another year to fix or replace airplane altimeters that can’t filter out cellular transmissions from outside their allotted frequencies. In a ...
The RTCA warns that 5G signals, planned for a spectrum adjacent to radio altimeter frequencies, pose a significant threat of harmful interference to aircraft flight safety. Such interference could ...
Canadian authorities are warning operators of the potential risk of interference to radio altimeters arising from 5G communications networks, following auction of part of the frequency spectrum. The ...
The FAA and RTCA have identified a major risk of 5G C-Band telecommunications systems causing harmful interference to aircraft radar altimeters, potentially leading to catastrophic failures. The FAA ...
Illustration from RTCA report, Assessment of C-Band Mobile Telecommunications Interference Impact On Low Range Radar Altimeter Operations. Credit: RTCA In my last The Crosscheck column, I wrote about ...