GPS interference and interference are multiplying as aircraft systems increasingly rely on it for primary navigation. Over the past three years, Spirent Communications, a company that tests navigation equipment, has recorded 150,000 different types of interference and interference events.
“Scramble in Global Navigation Satellite System [GNSS] is as difficult as getting a credit card. You can easily go out and buy stuffing equipment. Yes, this is illegal, but if you use GNSS, you may not care,” Jeremy Bennington, Spirent’s business solutions and technology strategy manager.
He added that the risks to aviation safety are real and tangible. “Since 2013, the FAA Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing System has recorded more than 100 reports of pilots whose GPS systems have been blocked. However, we know much more than that, because in the reported cases they deviated from a certain This regulatory requirement; they either broke the altitude or went to the wrong place.
Bennington cited several examples of GPS interference in recent years. This includes the Eastern Mediterranean earlier this year, where it has long been disrupted by five ocean-going ships and an aircraft, some of which have a range of 25 miles. Last year, GPS was blocked by Russia in Norway for a week. In the second quarter of 2016, more than 50 reports of gps jammer on Manila International Airport’s approach to runway 24 resulted in the loss of on-board GNSS functionality, invalid GPS-L and GPS-R messages, and reduced navigation. Performance causes RNP alerts. This also leads to omission of methods,
Bennington said that the augmented reality app “Pokemon Go” launched in 2016 encouraged hackers to trick GPS into winning prizes and posting code online. “The scams they do are mostly on mobile phones, but you use the same code and you define this radio with software and associate it with location and timing data. So you can create GPS or GNSS spoofing devices He says.
“We found that the number of GNSS-related scams has increased dramatically, in part because of Pokémon Go, as the technology has developed rapidly over six weeks and has spread through the Internet and the Internet. People who urgently need it “Bennington added. “There are not many cases where drones have been shot down, but this is because the financial impact and loss of life caused by the removal of drones today are not very serious compared to the destruction. However, as [aviation] became a rogue country Or targets of pirates, we will see this effect. “