DGCA Issues Circular on Measures to Deal with GNSS Interference in Airspace – News18

Aviation watchdog DGCA has issued a round to airways and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) on measures to deal with threats from jamming and spoofing of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) amid reviews of such interference in the Middle East.

The round offers complete mitigation measures and motion plans for plane operators, pilots, Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP) and air visitors controllers. This contains the event of contingency procedures in coordination with gear producers and assessing operational threat by conducting a security threat evaluation. AAI is the nation’s ANSP, and air visitors controllers additionally come underneath it.

In a launch on Friday, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) stated it has launched an advisory round on GNSS interference in the airspace. The watchdog stated the round highlights the rising threats of GNSS jamming and spoofing, the assorted geographical areas the place it has been noticed, and its potential impression on plane and floor-primarily based programs.

Generally, GNSS spoofing and jamming refers to makes an attempt to manipulate a person’s navigation system by giving false indicators. In the wake of the reviews of GNSS interference over airspace in the Middle East in the current previous, DGCA fashioned an inside committee on October 4.

The committee took inventory of the scenario, sensitised operators, and began discussions with main consultants from around the globe on the topic. After taking the inputs under consideration, DGCA stated suggestions have been included in the round for tackling the rising risk contemplating the perfect practices, newest developments and ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) steering on the matter.

Besides, the round offers a mechanism for ANSP to set up a risk monitoring and evaluation community in shut coordination with DGCA for preventive in addition to reactive risk monitoring and evaluation of reviews of GNSS interference to generate invaluable insights with information and new developments to have a sturdy and fast risk response. According to DGCA, the aviation trade is grappling with uncertainties due to new threats and reviews of GNSS jamming and spoofing. The round provides the a lot-wanted steering and readability to all involved with a sensible roadmap and motion plan to deal with the specter of GNSS interference in airspace in an efficient method, it added.

GNSS is important for plane navigation.

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