5G Might Affect Flight Movements: FAA Warning

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What is worrying the world is not the whooping increase in Internet user base, but instead how to tackle the scrambling of signals with 5G network that will affect airline flights? Those companies that might be launching the 5G wireless services near airports are in for trouble.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had reasons to believe that there can be potential 5G interference in communication signaling to aircrafts. This means, 5G could potentially affect height readings that play a key role in bad-weather landings on some jets and airlines say the Boeing 777 is among models initially in the spotlight.

This has become more prominent as American airlines have been forced to cancel their flights. Even India has cancelled its flights to the US over the potential rollouts. Meanwhile, two wireless carriers have said they will delay their deployment plans.  This includes AT&T and Verizon. Now, AT&T and Verizon are supposed to deploy their 5G wireless service on Wednesday after delaying it twice previously. The original plan was to roll out the service in December last year.

These companies were planning to use a radio spectrum close to the spectrum used to install altimeters that measure the height of an aircraft above ground. Apart from this instrument getting affected, other related instruments onboard an aircraft will also be compromised. So, now, it’s not only birds but human designed birds also that are in danger of getting sabotaged by 5G spectrum.

FAA had said on January 14 that “5G interference with the aircraft's radio altimeter could prevent engine and braking systems from transitioning to landing mode, which could prevent an aircraft from stopping on the runway”.

A group of US-based airlines, consisting of the likes of United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines and FedEx, said in a letter to the FAA that “5G internet deployment could cause catastrophic aviation crisis”. The group also said that 5G should be implemented everywhere in the US except within two miles of airport runways of affected airports.

It now stands that the FAA has begun updating its guidance on which airports and aircraft models would be affected, in a move expected to dramatically lessen the impact of the nearly 1,500 notices of 5G restrictions issued by the regulator. 

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