In the United States, the deployment of 5G has been stopped near airports. Airlines need to upgrade their planes to avoid possible interference, but many may miss the deadlines.
A few months before the summer season, airlines do not seem ready to meet deadlines to modernize aircraft equipment, in order to avoid possible interference with the 5G network deployed near airports in the United States.
Chain delays
Two US senators have asked for a report to find out which airlines are not meeting deadlines to update their measuring instruments, while flights are expected to intensify in a few months with the approach of summer.
As a reminder, the United States was concerned about possible interference from 5G on aircraft measuring devices and more particularly altimeters, a crucial measuring instrument for landing in bad weather.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) then asked to update these instruments. But the deadlines should be difficult to meet due to problems in the supply chain or even delays in certification, so much so that it considered postponing its requirement to equip aircraft with tolerant radio altimeters or equipped with band filters. C (3.8 GHz) of 5G by early next year, according to Reuters.
This additional time could still result in a postponement of the deployment of 5G in the C band in the United States. Operators had agreed to delay some deployments until July 1 while companies update the altimeter. But faced with this delay, they could in turn be impacted.
However, the FAA also appears to be on the operators’ side and may require airlines to revise flight plans by prohibiting low visibility landings after June 30 unless the changes have been made.
