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Old 5th April 2009 | 11:38
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Originally Posted by HEATHROW DIRECTOR
Interesting thread. I've been using GPS on the ground for 10+years on almost a daily basis and never experienced an "outage" and wasn't aware that such events occurred. GPS jamming does occur; it is NOTAMed and usually in a remote area well aware from busy cities, etc.

Cloud cover should not produce an "outage".
No, it *shouldn't*, but I've seen it a number of times with handheld sets in both enclosed and open cockpits, flying just below an overcast.

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