Sectional use

On Jan 28, 8:45 am, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
And then the bad guys will head to the area of a major airport, turn
on the GPS jammer, and kill a few thousand people in an hour without
anyone even knowing they were there.
That's an interesting (if appalling) topic. I wonder why no one (to
my knowledge) has ever taken out an ILS transmitter -- or, worse,
jammed it to cause false readings -- in an effort to do the same
thing?

Didn't they do the changed-ILS crash-thing in "Die Hard 2" ? Once
our side figured it out, they had all other airplanes circle forever,
running out of fuel. This was, of course, silly, since in real life
they'd send everyone to another airport (duh).

There have been cases, even recently, of civilians using voice freqs,
pretending to be ATC. Never seems to work, though.

Someone mentioned cross-checks to prevent running into trouble if a
GPS was jammed. Yet others say they depend on it and don't pay
attention to other navigation instruments.

On a related topic, the hot news this week was the Army calling for
new comm inventions. Apparently in Iraq the US Army has upped its
constant jamming to prevent remotely-detonated IEDs, to the point that
our own units cannot communicate with each other.

Kev