As many may be aware of, there’s a lot of GPS jamming especially in eastern Europe, due to the situation in Ukraine. Flightradar24 has made a map of the affected areas. This is affecting a lot of commercial flights, especially newer aircraft equipped with GPIRS.
I’ve considered simulating this in flight, as it could be an interesting challenge if you’re approaching an airport. Since its related to the situation in Ukraine, would that be allowed under CoC A.17?
A17 The re-creation of, or organization of events recognizing real world disasters, tragedies, or other such events, particularly those which resulted in loss of life, are not permitted. In addition callsigns that VATSIM has deemed prohibited shall not be used at any time.
I like how John Charles put it: just turn off your GPS. Dead reckoning is something you could do VFR; under IFR you would just have to plan your flight within the service volumes of whatever ground-based NAVAIDs are still available to you.
If you’re already airborne and want to simulate a failure of your instrumentation, that’s allowed. Just let ATC know that your GPS isn’t working, can they help you find a non-RNAV route, if you don’t already have one planned out. Saying that the failure is caused by someone jamming your GPS would likely go against the CoC.
Not only that, it would be unrealistic: when you experience this in reality, it manifests as a GPS failure. You have no way to know it’s being jammed, civilian aircraft have no equipment to detect that.
in pmdg boeings (as in the real aircraft) you can turn off gps updating and the fms will revert to IRS and dme/dme for position with corresponding changes to ANP
it really doesn’t change much especially over land. these aircraft are really redundant.