all depends on how much you want to gamble with a thousand dollar boat anchor falling from the sky if GPS gets wonky.Yesterday using the hover app, the kp index was at 8. I didn't notice anything wrong with my bird so I wonder if one really has to worry about it.
Yes .. NASA thinks intense radio emission from flares and these changes in the atmosphere can degrade the precision of Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements.Nasa thinks that GPS is affected from solar storms.
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/spaceweather.htm
Yes .. NASA thinks intense radio emission from flares and these changes in the atmosphere can degrade the precision of Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements.
But that comment doesn't say HOW MUCH it degrades the position.
News media love to get hysterical about this sort of thing.
The sky MIGHT fall, asteroids MIGHT hit earth.
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Rather than non-specific hysteria, here's some real information on potential impact.
http://www.phantompilots.com/threads/solar-flares.35796/#post-331319
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