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  • India’s DGCA clarifies 10-minute GNSS interference reporting requirement

    India’s DGCA clarifies 10-minute GNSS interference reporting requirement

    India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued an adendum on reporting procedures for suspected GNSS spoofing, reports news service AIN. On Nov. 10, the DGCA began requiring that all spoofing and jamming incidents be reported within 10 minutes, following an intense period of disruptions around Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi.

     The addendum is meant to clarify exactly what pilots and operators are required to do both before and after a GNSS interference incident is suspected.

    The disruptions produced false EGPWS alerts, position errors, and incorrect altitude indications, according to OpsGroup. The interference briefly drove ADS-B integrity in the Delhi terminal area to zero, affecting hundreds of aircraft and leaving controllers unable to rely on GPS-based surveillance.

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  • Pilots, ATC asked to report GPS interference in India within 10 minutes

    Pilots, ATC asked to report GPS interference in India within 10 minutes

    India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has made it mandatory for pilots and air traffic controllers to report GPS interference within 10 minutes of it occurring, reports Hindustan Times. The new protocol follows incidents at the New Delhi airport reported on Nov. 5.

    Incidents that should be reported include position anomalies, navigation errors, loss of GPS integrity, and spoofed location data, states a three-page circular issued on Nov. 10.

    The real-time reporting should include data such as aircraft type and registration, airline or operator name, date and time of spoofing occurrence, flight sector and route, coordinates or area of occurrence, type of interference and aircraft equipment affected.

  • India increases efforts to collect GNSS spoofing data

    India increases efforts to collect GNSS spoofing data

    India’s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), is collecting data on GPS interference and spoofing to have a better understanding of the situation, reports several news outlets in the country. The urge to collect data comes after the Delhi airport experienced issues in the past few days.

    Following a circular issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in 2023, instances of GPS interference/spoofing have been reported since November 2023.

    Recently, several airlines have faced GPS spoofing at the New Delhi airport, with at least eight such instances on Nov. 5, said an unnamed DGCA official. The interference instances were noticed in domestic and international flights.

    Generally, interference issues are reported in border areas, rather than at Indira Gandhi International Airport, the country’s busiest. Daily flight movements have increased to more than 1,500 following an airport terminal upgrade completed in October.

    As many as 465 GPS interference and spoofing incidents were reported in the border region, mostly in the Amritsar and Jammu areas, between November 2023 and February 2025.