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Kirkenes airport in Norway's northeast. Pilots here have never
experienced more GPS jamming than this November and December. Photo: Thomas
Nilsen
Widerøe
pilots lost GPS signal 27 times so far in December
“This
creates big problems for us. We lose one of the systems that we normally use
for navigation,” says spokesperson Catharina Solli with the regional airliner
Widerøe.
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By
Thomas Nilsen
December 22, 2022
Pilots
are reporting loss of navigation GPS on flights both in the eastern and western
parts of Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost region, newspaper iFinnmark reports.
It is jamming from Russia’s Kola Peninsula that
seriously troubles passenger flights to the remote airports in Finnmark.
“GPS problems are reported 2-3 times per week by our
pilots since 2018. This has now escalated vastly,” Widerøe’s Catharina Solli
says to iFinnmark.
An overview by the Norwegian Communications Authority
(Nkom), published by Faktisk
Verifiserbar, shows 81 days with loss of GPS signals in eastern
Finnmark in the period from January 1 to November 16. That was four times more
than reported in 2021.
The following month became much worse.
“Our pilots here [flying in Finnmark] registered loss
of GPS signals 17 times in November. And now in December, it is actually even
more. Per December 20 we have experienced loss of GPS signals 27 times,” Solli
says.
Another
change is that jamming also impacts the western part of Finnmark, several
hundred kilometers from the border with Russia.
Widerøe is northern Europes largest regional airliner.
In Finnmark, the company operates daily flights to 11 airports from Kirkenes in
the east to Hasvik in the west.
The Barents
Observer previously reported that Russia has dedicated
electronic warfare troops on the Kola Peninsula that regularly exercise its
navigation jamming capacities.
According to Faktisk
Verifiserbar, the military forces intensified jamming of GPS signals
at several locations in Russia shortly after Ukrainian drones hit the Engels
airbase in the Saratov region on December 5.
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