If this entire situation goes pear-shaped tomorrow, don’t say that you didn’t receive plenty of warnings. We learned over the Christmas holiday period that the nation’s airlines were in a panic over the impending launch of a national 5G network because many of their commercial aircraft could suffer navigational equipment failures when exposed to the new C-band radiation coming from the cell towers. The rollout of the new service, mostly by Verizon and AT&T, was scheduled to start on January 3rd, but the date was pushed back until tomorrow in a “compromise” that basically satisfied nobody. Now the date is almost upon us and the nation’s major airlines have sent an urgent letter to multiple federal government departments warning that a “catastrophic aviation crisis” is on the way unless something is done. They’re talking about the possible cancellation of more than a thousand flights daily, affecting as many as 100,000 passengers. And yet the launch is apparently still scheduled to go forward.
It wasn’t just the major passenger airlines that signed off on this letter. UPS and FedEx Express, both of whom have large fleets of aircraft, added their objections to the plan for the same reasons. (As if it wasn’t already hard enough to get your packages…)
What other news didn’t we hear during the media’s week-long observance of January 6th?
More discussion at Tim Worstall. (h/t Russtovich)
Update: A slew of international airlines on Tuesday cut flights to the U.S. and one even suspended travel indefinitely to some American cities, citing concerns over Wednesday’s planned deployment of 5G service. (h/t Johan i Kanada)
Let them fly taser.
All part of the plan to keep you at home? For the good of the planet you know….
Yup.
Make the Jet Set exclusive again.
The riff raff can get on a Greyhound and stop clogging up the tarmac what with their visits back home or binge drinking lowbrow tours of the world.
Oh, wait, where is Greyhound to drive me to the next decimated town?
Fuck it. I will just watch YouTube tours on the Danube while drinking box wine, then pass out, feeling that I did the grand tour.
Meanwhile, Uber Yacht people, the special ones, have again the beaches to themselves.
Ain’t the reset grand!?
Anyone catch China accusing Musk’s Star Link for bad internet recently?
Yup.
The China Man want the exact locations of every one of those sats.
Er for safety reasons.
Ya….sure.
From planned shortages to planned flights.
This could make for some epic lawsuits that last clear into the 22nd century.
Or maybe it’s just a North American f*ckup?
https://www.timworstall.com/2022/01/is-us-5g-different-from-eu/
My friend the retired air traffic controller believes that Canada used the same mitigation measures as France – lower angled antenna placement, lower transmitter power levels, and better frequency segregation in areas close to runway operations.,
So outside of Windsor, Ontario (because of Metro Detroit), Canada can just duck.
Did we not test this in some way first before the rollout? Or at least a simulation or two maybe? Honestly it’s been all downhill for the West since we put a man on the moon. This is just the latest manifestation.
I agree with SId V.
My first thought was surely someone has researched this. But Science has been corrupted by “$cientist”. But surely the military must know. Oh, never mind. I guess we give it the smoke test.
Let the secret smoke out.
It wants to be free.
Free Smokey.
Is the sky falling?
I have no sympathy.
C-Band has always been in use, but it was mostly used for satellite to ground communications. The signals came from above, and were quite weak by the time they arrived here. Radio altimeter antennas face downwards. Given that they operate in a different band, and use directional antennas there was never a problem.
Because there were no strong ground signals in C-Band, the avionics companies that manufactured these devices skimped on the input filtering to restrict the receivers to only seeing radio-altimeter signals. The FCC compounded this, by letting them get away with inadequate receiver front-end filtering in their type acceptance testing.
The avionics companies and particularly the FCC own this.
The airlines are not much better. They knew this was coming. I have little doubt that better quality radio altimeters are available.
I have to ask myself if those produced by EU companies have similar problems?
My son is an airline pilot and he told me about the problem with 5G interfering with the radio altimeter.
The RA frequency is adjacent to 5G and when they are low, on approach, the RA cannot be trusted. He has to report all locations where they encounter this.
Nobody wanted 5G but we’re going to get it good and hard!
A bunch of non-US based airlines cancel flights to the US:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/emirates-cancels-flights-to-several-us-cities-over-5g-concerns
This reminds me of that Boeing Max fiasco. Where the gov asked Boeing to test because the gov did not have test capabilities. Yep, we’re dumber and dumber as race, as civilization.
Why are we just hearing abut this now?
The 5G specs have been out for a long time, surely some avionics people noticed that the 5G freq. range was the same as or close to that of their altimeters right off the bat?
It seems kinda fishy, no?
Who needs to know their altitude…? over rated…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaOkTKfxu44
Here’s something that seems to have slipped by:
Relationship Between Covid-19 Vaccination and All Cause Mortality
ADVERSE EFFECTS
By Guy Hatchard December 17, 2021
https://hatchardreport.com/relationship-between-covid-19-vaccination-and-all-cause-mortality/
“Relationship between vaccination and all cause mortality for the 60+ cohort in New Zealand.
A look at the New Zealand data released under OIA
Hundreds of deaths associated with vaccination
Lessons can be learned. National reconciliation is possible.”
Don’t know about that last line.
” National reconciliation is possible.” with a rope.
And the “vaccines are safe and effective”.
https://ehtrust.org/former-microsoft-canada-president-challenges-telecom-on-5g-safety/
“Oakville, ON – In a short video released today, Frank Clegg, former President of Microsoft Canada, challenges a President of Rogers Communications to prove his claim that the radiation from the antennas added to the current 300 towers and additional 350 new cell towers planned for Eastern Ontario is “very, very safe.”
https://radiationdangers.com/studies/5g-dangers-dr-martin-pall-letter-to-the-guardian-newspaper/
“Each of these 15 people is a distinguished scientist who has contributed important findings to our understanding of the biological effects of EMFs, where their only “fault” comes from the fact that their findings threaten the telecom industry. It is not surprising that, having taken on these industries on 5G, I would be the target of such personality assassination. What is surprising is that The Guardian would be jeopardizing its reputation by participating in that process through the Hern article.”
If you sense a similarity to the Pharmaceutical Industry you might be a thinker rather than a feeler.
So a couple generations ago we had the rockets of JPL and NASA, the Avro Arrow, the Concorde.
The future must have looked bright to those (mostly white, mostly) guys.
Bet they didn’t see this coming.
Where is Chicken Little when you need him