The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have begun an information-sharing program intended to counter safety threats from the spoofing and jamming of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
“GNSS systems offer tremendous advantages to aviation in increasing the safety of operations in a busy shared airspace,” EASA Acting Executive Director Luc Tytgat said after a late-January workshop in Cologne, Germany, that focused on the issue.
Jamming blocks a GNSS signal while spoofing sends out false information. In recent years, these two types of interference have increased, especially in Eastern Europe and the Middle East but also in other locations worldwide, IATA and EASA said in a statement issued after the workshop.
Workshop participants agreed that interference with GNSS services that provide information on the precise locations of aircraft can present challenges to aviati…
