Obama Crony-Run LightSquared’s Network Now Shown to Disrupt Plane Safety Gear; How Long Will Media Continue to Ignore?

Could you maybe make this less politically injected? seeing the title of this alone already makes me want to eject it..

Gee,John, you must really be a supporter of the President! Glad to have you on board! Be sure to send in your political contributions to the "Re-elect the President" campaign.

The hatred of the present President AND his wife for aviation is not exactly late news.

The President was a Illinois State Senator at the time so many people worked so hard to save Meigs. The President's part as an Illinois State Senator, and the President's wife's part, as a member of the Chicago City Planning Commission ( I believe, but do not recall the details, she was Mayor Daley's "contact" with the Commission) has been well-reported elsewhere.

So it should not surprise anyone that the current Administration would not be overly concerned about the side-effects of this LIGHT SQUARED situation.

I personbally don't have the time or patience to dwell in conspiracy theories. So I will leave it to others to ramble on about what foreign interests supporting alternates to our GPS, would want so badly to see LIGHT SQUARED become operational.

As a personal note, my first IFR "check-ride" was so far back in time, that we still has to be cross-trained in the old low freq. AM ranges ("flying the beam". VHF for light general aviation was just getting going (ah..."whistle stop" tuning..Omnigators, etc..). I am told either of the two "moving map GPS systems in my own aircraft today, pack far more accuracy and computer power than the Space Shuttle had only a few years ago. O.K..confession time...I LOVE GPS...not sure I could find the Men's Room without it...!

Peter Hartmann

Hey maybe Randy Babbitt will find a new job [ another pension ] with light squared What a great story about his escaped and then flight the next day.
Did the booze all drain out before he gave the preflight check sir ?
Or there's always openings for those cocaine cowboys at tree top level...

Now Gene, give the boy a break. He got busted on a Saturday night/Sunday morning and the checkride wasn't til Monday. He had time for it to drain.LOL

Ejected. I'm sure there is something actually worth reading here but the angry-polictial bend on the author-supplied title completely discredits anything linked or quoted.

This isnt a political discussion site. Keep it neutral.

Wonder if this is being pushed by the same mob who wanted to make the old 121.5 MHz ELTs illegal. Everybody wants a peice of the radio-band real estate.

Really? As an engineer & airline pilot I will discount sources that begin their report with a political catchword. Can't we keep the squawk list free of blog posts? Nobody wants to cause interference affecting the safety of flight or navigation, whatever their political affiliation. Even though this blog post contains SOME factual info, it's all couched in political finger pointing language. Let's keep the Squawk List feed with news, not a bunch of politically charged blogs or it will soon end up as a worthless source for aviation news. Eject it!

I can only laugh.. Let's post news, like the other article on LightSq, vs blogs.

Authorization to use the L Band frequencies were granted to LightSquared' predecessor Mobile Satellite technologies by the FCCin November 2004. I believe that there was a Bush in the Whitehouse at the time.

Obama was not the US Senate at the time as he was elected in Novemebr 2004 and was not sworn in until sometime after the election.

Please verify your history before posting your political "Obama-Hater" rants.

Brad: between now and election day in 2012, there is going to be no middle ground. This thing has been blatant ever since first coming out. The idea and technology behind lightsquared is sound, but had it been anyone else bringing out the proposal, it would have been shot down by the FCC before it ever got off the ground for the very reasons that are coming to light now, but because of the political influence, it was rammed down everybody's throat and allowed to proceed. There was another proposal that lightsquared tossed out today to move the frequencies around a little, but before it is over, anything that resembles a GPS will have to have a filter put on it and YOU will pay for that out of your own pocket while Falcone puts $ in his. Just Sayin'