Amid recent cases of GPS spoofing near Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, aviation watchdog DGCA has directed pilots, air traffic controllers (ATCs), and airlines to report such incidents within 10 minutes of occurrence.

“Any pilot, ATC controller, or technical unit detecting abnormal GPS behaviour (e.g., position anomalies, navigation errors, loss of GNSS signal integrity, or spoofed location data) shall initiate real-time reporting (within 10 minutes of occurrence),” the regulator said in a three-page circular issued on November 10.

The DGCA said real-time reporting will help ensure flight safety and operational integrity after several instances of GPS interference were detected around the country’s busiest airport, which handles over 1,500 flight movements daily.

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