Its Aviation Intelligence Unit has published a ‘Think Paper’  whose main findings include that:

- A massive >20-fold rise in GNSS RFI incidents occurred in 2018 and has been sustained ever since.

- 38.5% of European en-route traffic operates through regions intermittently but regularly affected by RFI.

- 5% of traffic in these disruption zones could, given current RFI levels, need special assistance, measurably increasing pilot and controller workload and overall safety risk.

- RFI jamming by state or proxy actors damages network efficiency and risks undermining safety.

- The aviation industry has significantly invested in GNSS as a global utility essential for providing air services safely and efficiently: RFI undercuts that investment.

- While EUROCONTROL and partners have actively enlarged their ability to identify RFI in real-time and take prompt mitigation action, additional awareness and action needs to be taken at State level.

- RFI jamming is disproportionate: while the majority of RFI hotspots appear related to conflict zones, they affect civil aviation at distances of up to 300km, reflecting a use of jamming that appears to go well beyond simple military mission effectiveness.

- States need to be aware of the problem and increase internal cooperation between their civil and military aviation bodies.

The Think Paper makes interesting reading and may be downloaded from EUROCONTROL