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What is GPS jamming?

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We use global positioning systems (GPS) for our sat navs and our mobile phones, and it's used extensively in aviation and shipping navigation.

But what happens when it's disrupted?

GPS jamming, when the signal isn't able to get through - and spoofing - which tricks the receiver into calculating a false position, is happening more and more.

We look into the impact on the transportation sector - and on our everyday lives.

Produced and presented by Gareth Mitchell

(Image: An airline cockpit. Credit: Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Gareth Mitchell and on this edition of Business Daily, I've come to London

0:06.5

Luton Airport where I'm standing just outside a state-of-the-art flight simulator facility is where they do

0:12.6

lots of pilot training and they're going to show me how issues with GPS are affecting aviation

0:19.0

and indeed what pilots are doing about it.

0:23.8

And it's not just airline pilots.

0:26.3

This is a programme about how a system that millions of us around the world rely on every day

0:30.8

for everything from logistics and shipping to banking and even dating is proving a bit, well, vulnerable.

0:39.0

You can see if it senses that we've got a discrepancy between ground-based radio aids

0:45.7

and the aircraft's air data.

0:49.3

This is Mark. He's a pilot and one of the instructors here in the Avion Flight Simulator at Luton.

0:56.2

We've climbed into a complete Airbus A320 cockpit with its arrays of displays, flight controls

1:02.0

and banks of switches.

1:03.3

The GPS thinks we are and where the aircraft IRS think that we are positioned. So we're always

1:08.3

made aware by the airplane if there is a disagreement.

1:11.4

Mark's setting up the simulator and getting me strapped in, just as if we were taking off for a routine departure with passengers.

1:18.1

What we're going to experience now is a simulated flight as the aircraft goes into motion.

1:25.5

In the right hand seat, that's Ryan Visser.

1:28.2

He's an experienced Boeing 747 pilot, ably demonstrating that he also knows his way around

1:33.7

the airbus pretty well.

1:35.0

He's the facility manager here.

1:37.2

Well, this is exciting.

1:38.5

We're ready to go.

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