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GPS during a Flight?

OK.. I am a pilot wont say for who but I hardly every turn my phone on airplane mode or off when im sitting in the cockpit flying the plane!!! As far as the GPS receiver your right GPS only receives. I once many years ago had a flight attendant tell me I had to turn off my (aviation hand held GPS) for whatever reason but it will not interfere with anything its made to be used in a cockpit lol They have several aviation type GPS/moving map apps now days for tablets/phones for U mac people there for-flight I think its called android has one called navigator which I just started trying out in flight today. I do however have a need for some kinda of external GPS antenna anyone know of one?
 
brandonoh777 said:
I do however have a need for some kinda of external GPS antenna anyone know of one?
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as the "normal" Android phones" do not have a HW input you need to use an external antenna, which can communicate to your phone. There are plenty of Bluetooth GPS Mouse out there in the market. Price range from 10 to 100 US dollars. My experience is that even the cheaper ones are good enough. But if you want to make sure you will always be linked to at least 6 SAT then you need a mid to high price one.
Just set in your android gps options the external gps receiver on and link your bluetooth gps to your phone. that's it. then you can use it with all applications, which can read the gps link in android.
I even found out, that this way of gps use doesn't drain the battery that much as the use of the internal gps receiver does. It seems that the bluetooth connection is more power efficient than the use of the internal gps receiver.
 
one remark to switching the phones on or off during the flight.
I have reliable technical data that the so called normal use of telephone does not interfere with the plane's electronic or navigation at all.
However, there is still the possibility of impacting the electronic of the plane, if for example during the landing procedure 200 people switch all at the same time their phones on in order to communicate that they are approaching the airport.
This kind of peak, especially during the "switch on" and first communication to the GSM tower is quite dangerous. We have tested this with about 250 phones logging in at the same time and all the navigation electronic around 50 meters just dropped off for about 3 -5 seconds. However this is not enough to create malfunctions for example during an ILS approach or the navigation system of the plane. The systems error tollerance is much higher.
that's at the moment the situation. With other words, it is quite safe, but there are still open questions.
 
there are USB GPS modules out there, however, I am not aware of any android driver or app for a UBS GPS module.
The ant question is depending on two things: 1)a passive antenna (like a wire extension). those are only useful if your Hardware wires the antenna signal through on to your gps module. I think that's not the case. Think about it, if you give any signal to a USB port, how can the Hardware (phone pc tablet) know what to do with this signal. So you need drivers or a fixed wired passthrough to your gps. again, I am not aware of any functionality like this.
2) active antenna as described above, those antennas take the signal and amplify it and then send it via bluetooth to the final destination (phone , pc , tablet etc....) using a certain protocol ( GPS transfer protocols), your Hardware picks it up as it knows those GPS transfer protocols (implemented in your GPS software, if there is an option in settings for external GPS modules, otherwise even this is not possible).
hope this made it clearer

Greetings from Sichuan China
 
RanRuobin said:
Just set in your android gps options the external gps receiver on and link your bluetooth gps to your phone. that's it. then you can use it with all applications, which can read the gps link in android.
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Where is the android GPS options? On my phone (Samsung Epic 4G) there's no configuration setting for GPS. Just the ability to turn it on or off.
 
Epicurean said:
Where is the android GPS options? On my phone (Samsung Epic 4G) there's no configuration setting for GPS. Just the ability to turn it on or off.
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well, that's what i mentioned above. IF..... there is an option to support external GPS devices..................
sometimes you can find it in GPS settings, or in Location services, or even under the resp. MAPs application.
it really depends on the mobile (tablet etc..) it is not a specific Android standard.
please read your mobile's manual in order to find out, if your phone does support external GPS devices....

PS: I called a friend who is using this option, he said, sometimes the GPS mouse ( or other external GPS tool) has a software included which gives the Android phone the capability to catch the signal via bluetooth( seems to be a driver software).
 
RanRuobin said:
there are USB GPS modules out there, however, I am not aware of any android driver or app for a UBS GPS module.
The ant question is depending on two things: 1)a passive antenna (like a wire extension). those are only useful if your Hardware wires the antenna signal through on to your gps module. I think that's not the case. Think about it, if you give any signal to a USB port, how can the Hardware (phone pc tablet) know what to do with this signal. So you need drivers or a fixed wired passthrough to your gps. again, I am not aware of any functionality like this.
2) active antenna as described above, those antennas take the signal and amplify it and then send it via bluetooth to the final destination (phone , pc , tablet etc....) using a certain protocol ( GPS transfer protocols), your Hardware picks it up as it knows those GPS transfer protocols (implemented in your GPS software, if there is an option in settings for external GPS modules, otherwise even this is not possible).
hope this made it clearer

Greetings from Sichuan China
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ok thanks i orderd a gps bluetooth mouse :)
 
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