The domestic departures terminal of the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi. (Photo: Creative Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0)

India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has made it mandatory for pilots and air traffic controllers to report GPS interference within 10 minutes of it occurring, reports Hindustan Times. The new protocol follows incidents at the New Delhi airport reported on Nov. 5.

Incidents that should be reported include position anomalies, navigation errors, loss of GPS integrity, and spoofed location data, states a three-page circular issued on Nov. 10.

The real-time reporting should include data such as aircraft type and registration, airline or operator name, date and time of spoofing occurrence, flight sector and route, coordinates or area of occurrence, type of interference and aircraft equipment affected.