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NBAA Webinar Addresses GPS Spoofing Vulnerabilities
Spoofing not confined to Middle East or Ukraine
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Spoofing has exposed the vulnerabilities of using GPS as the sole primary navigation source for aircraft, according to a recent NBAA News Hour webinar. In a GPS spoofing attack, a counterfeit radio signal is transmitted to a receiver antenna to counteract and override a legitimate GPS satellite, causing navigation errors.

“The bottom line is, GPS satellites are 12,000 miles up in the sky while a GPS spoofer can be just 10 miles away from the airplane,” said David Woodcock, principal applications engineer for customer and product support for Honeywell Aerospace. “The RF signals you receive from satellites are a lot weaker than what’s on the ground.”