Russians playing games with their jammers (believed)

[Teddy Robinson]

Good evening.

I have been flying in a certain part of the world, in an advanced, although antiquated aircraft.
This part of the world is a hot spot for jamming / spoofing, and the visual evidence is everywhere.
Both the US and Russia have an interest in the region, as do the local adversaries, so the problem is well know to our crews.

Passing a predictable point, the wind indication moves 180 degrees and increases from 40 to 200 knots with no wind-shear, and against the forecast winds aloft.
Both the IRS and analogue versions of our aircraft throw a fit as there are no ground based aids to rescue them.

This usually comes at a point where we need to turn into seriously uncharted territory in the middle of a sandstorm ... however ....

We both have our route preplanned into our Ipads, and these are STILL displaying an accurate visually checked position, speed and GPS Altitude with a stated accuracy of 6 meters.

All I can say is that it is phonemically accurate, and gives real time downgrades to position accuracy if that occurs.

Granted: you cannot and must not fly an RNP approach into a major airport based solely on this information, what I can say after many years of experience is that works well to acquire an airfield in VFR conditions, or to navigate accurately until the onboard systems can be brought back online,

Fly safe TR.