NEW DELHI: India is taking “new protective measures” to tackle the issue of GPS spoofing that has been witnessed at several airports in country. Union aviation minister Rammohan Naidu on Monday told Parliament that some flights had recently reported GPS spoofing in the vicinity of IGI Airport while approaching runway 10 using satellite-based landing procedures, prompting “contingency procedures” to be activated,” he added. DGCA had issued an advisory circular in Nov 2023 for addressing GNSS interference in airspace. After GPS spoofing near IGI Delhi, it further tightened the safety protocol and issued SOPs on Nov 10 for real-time reporting of such events, he said. Airports Authority of India has asked Wireless Monitoring Organisation to track the origin of the interference/spoofing.
