Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
GPS jamming and spoofing in the Baltic is not new and even becomes a standard nowadays . what is new is the combined introduction of RNP App with Remote tower ops and downgrading ATC for FIS in that airport .
All 3 to save costs of course .
Indeed, the difference in this case is apparently "no GPS guide=no land" at EETU. It is not an airport I am familiar with and neither do I need to sit in the big seat with all the responsibility.
Our news generally has been full of regular jamming stories, mostly by the beastly Russians and not by the brave NATO forces when doing a few mil exercises up north though - they were NOTAMed
I do not claim specialist knowledge on the remote ATC, and no doubt it is all good and dandy until a problem occurs and then "oh..."