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Impacts of Global Navigation Satellite System Jamming on Aviation

Michael Felux, Patric Fol, Benoit Figuet, Manuel Waltert, and Xavier Olive
NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation September 2024, 71 (3) navi.657; DOI: https://doi.org/10.33012/navi.657
Michael Felux
1ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Engineering, Centre for Aviation, Switzerland
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Patric Fol
1ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Engineering, Centre for Aviation, Switzerland
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Benoit Figuet
1ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Engineering, Centre for Aviation, Switzerland
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Manuel Waltert,
1ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Engineering, Centre for Aviation, Switzerland
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Xavier Olive
2ONERA – DTIS, Université de Toulouse, France
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    AoIs for which ADS-B data were collected

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    Percentage of flights affected by RFI per hexadecimal bin between February and December 2022 a) AoI-1 b) AoI-2 c) AoI-3

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    Daily number and percentage of flights affected by RFI for all AoIs

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    Jamming activity for AoI-1 over 30-min intervals covering the entire observation period

    The color of each cell corresponds to the relative and absolute number of flights impacted by RFI within the 30-min interval. a) Relative share of flights subject to RFI b) Absolute number of flights subject to RFI

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    Jamming activity for AoI-2 over 30-min intervals covering the entire observation period

    The color of each cell corresponds to the relative and absolute number of flights impacted by RFI within the 30-min interval. a) Relative share of flights subject to RFI b) Absolute number of flights subject to RFI

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    Jamming activity for AoI-3 over 30-min intervals covering the entire observation period

    The color of each cell corresponds to the relative and absolute number of flights impacted by RFI within the 30-min interval. a) Relative share of flights subject to RFI b) Absolute number of flights subject to RFI

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    Box plot of the number of flights affected simultaneously by RFI for each AoI at times when RFI was detected The solid vertical bars indicate the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum number (from left to right), whereas the dashed vertical line represents the mean value.

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    Comparison of aircraft-type share between the total traffic and RFI-impacted flights a) AoI-1 b) AoI-2 c) AoI-3

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    Flight track of the observation flight into Beirut

    The solid black line represents normal operation, whereas the red line depicts the flight track for the time period during which NAC, NIC, and SIL dropped to 0 but position information was still transmitted. The blue dashed line is an interpolation for when no position information was available.

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    NACP value

    The first red dashed line indicates the NAV ADS-B RPTG1+2 FAULT, the second dashed red line indicates the GPS PRIMARY LOST message, and the green dashed line indicates the recovery to GPS PRIMARY.

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    NIC value

    The first red dashed line indicates the NAV ADS-B RPTG 1+2 FAULT, the second dashed red line indicates the GPS PRIMARY LOST message, and the green dashed line indicates the recovery to GPS PRIMARY.

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    SIL value

    The first red dashed line indicates the NAV ADS-B RPTG 1+2 FAULT, the second dashed red line indicates the GPS PRIMARY LOST message, and the green dashed line indicates the recovery to GPS PRIMARY.

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    Number of tracked satellites per constellation.

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    Distance between position estimates from different sensors The time when the GPS PRIMARY LOST message was displayed is indicated in red.

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    Three different position sources during the final approach: GPS 1 (green), IRS 1 (red), u-blox (orange)

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    TABLE 1

    NACp and Corresponding EPU Values From EUROCAE (2010)

    NACpEPU
    11< 0.00162 NM
    10< 0.0054 NM
    9< 0.0162 NM
    8< 0.05 NM
    7< 0.1 NM
    6< 0.3 NM
    5< 0.5 NM
    4< 1 NM
    3< 2 NM
    2< 4 NM
    1< 10 NM
    0> 10 NM or unknown
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    Number of Occurrences of Flights Affected by RFI for Which No Inertial or Terrestrial Navigation Capabilities Were Reported

    Aircraft TypeAoI-1Count AoI-2AoI-3
    LJ350817
    E55P1217
    C510205
    LJ55003
    others231

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Michael Felux, Patric Fol, Benoit Figuet, Manuel Waltert,, Xavier Olive
NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation Sep 2024, 71 (3) navi.657; DOI: 10.33012/navi.657

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Michael Felux, Patric Fol, Benoit Figuet, Manuel Waltert,, Xavier Olive
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