[time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter
SAIDJACK at aol.com
SAIDJACK at aol.com
Wed Mar 7 03:37:49 UTC 2012
I'm sorry, but Mr. Javad is on crack.
A simple WAAS upgrade on a GENERAL AVIATION aircraft already costs about
$8000 fully installed.
This includes an antenna upgrade that I remember to be about $3000
installed for the antenna itself.
$500 per plane to fix the issue? Yeah right. In what world does he live in?
bye,
Said
In a message dated 3/6/2012 16:38:28 Pacific Standard Time,
jdp3 at cornell.edu writes:
The cost of such retrofits is under $500 per aircraft. It would cost less
than $20M to fix any existing issues within the industry and only take a
few months to complete. Please also note that all existing GPS receivers are
semi-obsolete and will soon need to be replaced anyway (with or without
LightSquared) because current systems do not track the modernized signals of
GPS, GLONASS and Galileo.
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