NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has made it mandatory for pilots and air traffic controllers to report GPS spoofing within 10 minutes of encountering the same. Issuing a new “reporting protocol” after the Delhi Airport has started witnessing this phenomenon for the first time in recent weeks, the regulator says: “Any pilot, ATC controller, or technical unit detecting abnormal GPS behaviour (like position anomalies, navigation errors, loss of GNSS signal integrity, or spoofed location data) shall initiate real time reporting (within 10 minutes of occurrence).” A GNSS signal is a radio wave transmitted by satellites that contains data about their position and the time the signal was sent. The real-time information will require details like date and time of spoo

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