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They simply won't turn their GPS on.


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Won’t they have to before takeoff? Or will that not be a requirement?

The people doing illegal activity with planes don't care about requirements or are paying people to overlook them ignoring the requirements.

Drug smuggling planes might not be in full compliance with every single regulation.

It will probably be easier to spot them, since very few planes will show up on radar and not on the GPS system. It might be enough to go take a visual immediately once this is fully online.

I thought the way that they historically avoided detection was to quite literally fly below the radar. Wouldn't that still work with this new system, they just wont show up anywhere?

That is one way, but sometimes they do show up / try to mimic other traffic / etc. That part of things would be reduced.

There are lots of other ways it's being monitored. But as for the flying below the radar, there are these along the southern border and Gulf of Mexico:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerostat_Radar_Syst...


They'll ignore the rules as I'm sure they already do.

As you'll see from the various documentaries, historically planes operating illegally and/or doing illegal things will fly "under the radar" and keep their transponder turned off to evade the authorities.

They'll do the same thing with GPS.


The overwhelming majority of airspace under 10K feet in the US does not require ADS-B out.

https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/equipadsb/research/airspace/


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