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Aviation Industry Briefs FCC Staff on C-Band Concerns

Aviation industry representatives answered FCC Office of Engineering and Technology and Wireless Bureau staff about a report from last year by RTCA, formerly the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics, on interference risks to low-range radar altimeters posed by mobile C-band…

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use (see 2010280048). Participants also discussed a stakeholder group report and two preliminary studies by the Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute (AVSI). “Staff’s questions and resulting discussion were wide ranging including the details and parameters used in aviation safety analyses in general and the radar altimeter testing,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 18-122. Aviation Spectrum Resources, AVSI, Boeing, Collins Aerospace, Garmin, Honeywell and Lockheed Martin were among attendees.