The Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) recommended that airlines prepare for flights without using the GPS navigation satellite system, a newspaper wrote.
Dmitry Yadrov, the deputy head of the department, sent a corresponding letter to the general director of the State Air Traffic Management Corporation Igor Moiseenko and the heads of the agency's interregional territorial departments, who forwarded it to the heads of the airlines.
Recommendations are given in connection with the possible disconnection and “jamming” of GPS signals and spoofing attacks when flying in the Kaliningrad region, near the countries of the Baltic Sea basin, in the eastern part of Finland, in the Black Sea, in the Eastern Mediterranean, Israel, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and northern Iraq. EASA had previously warned about navigation system failures. read more
The ATM GC has recommended "assisting aircraft crews in the event of a GPS outage" and pilots promptly informing air traffic controllers of "glitches, degradation and abnormal operation of GPS" or related avionics. Carriers need to assess the risks and limitations associated with failures of navigation instruments and aircraft systems using the GPS signal, and conduct exercises with flight crews to practice actions in the event of failures in the operation of satellite navigation systems.
There are now four global navigation satellite systems: GPS, operated by the US government, Russia's GLONASS, Europe's Galileo, and China's Beidou (Compass). Civil aircraft, including Airbus, Boeing and Superjet 100, are equipped with on-board systems and instruments that only receive a GPS signal.
The head of Roskosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said in his Telegram channel that the state corporation will offer Russian airlines to replace GPS system equipment with GLONASS.
“Today we will send to the Ministry of Transport and the Federal Air Transport Agency our technical proposals for replacing GPS with GLONASS subscriber equipment, which will also be able to receive a navigation signal from the Chinese Beidou orbital navigation system,” he wrote.
“On all cars produced in our country or imported into our country in accordance with the legislation of Russia, since January 1, 2017, the ERA-GLONASS system has been installed. It turns out that this could be installed on tens of millions of cars, but not on hundreds of foreign-made aircraft? ”The head of Roscosmos asked.
He stressed that now it is necessary to “compulsorily” install GLONASS stations at all airports to provide a high-precision navigation signal, and GLONASS receivers on all aircraft operated in Russia.