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Building Resilience to GNSS Jamming & Spoofing

Building Resilience to GNSS Jamming & Spoofing      If you fly, fix, dispatch, or supervise airplanes in 2025, you’re living in a world where GPS can be wrong, and not by a little. Reports of GNSS (GPS) jamming and spoofing have surged across Eastern Europe and the Middle East, enough that EASA and IATA published a joint plan this summer to help operators detect, withstand, and report interference events through standardized reporting, improved training, and layered navigation resilience. We’ve seen the operational consequences firsthand: flights forced to revert to ground based procedures after suspected jamming, and an ICAO assembly resolution that condemned satellite navigation interference because of its safety impact. Closer to home, FAA flight advisories continue to warn U.S. crews about GPS outages from testing and encourage pilots to report anomalies, proof that interference isn’t just happening overseas.      From a safety manager’s perspective...
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Weather Hazards in Aviation: Solar Flares

  Weather Hazards in Aviation: Solar Flares       Weather is one of the greatest concerns in general aviation. When we think of weather hazards in aviation the first things that may come to mind might be ice, thunderstorms, tornadoes, etc. Unbeknownst to a lot of people, solar flares may also impact aviation operations. I chose this hazard because it is not something that is often talked about. I think spreading awareness about this hazard is important in bettering the aviation industry.       As we know, the sun occasionally releases bursts of energy, known as solar flares. Solar flares release vast amounts of radiation into space. This radiation can often interfere with radio and satellite communications, power grids, or technology on Earth. This is a problem, because in recent months there has been increased solar activity. In the last decade there has been an increase in the frequency of solar bursts. There have also been several reports ...
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