{"id":34403,"date":"2022-11-30T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T06:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34403"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T07:47:24","slug":"safe-flying-new-sop-soon-on-5g-airwave-infra-around-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/safe-flying-new-sop-soon-on-5g-airwave-infra-around-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe Flying: New Sop Soon on 5G Airwave Infra Around Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why In News:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The aviation and telecom departments will shortly roll out a plan to ensure safe flight operations around airports with 5G airwave infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>This is being done after India\u2019s aviation regulator flagged concerns about interference that 5G signals could cause, potentially posing a challenge to safe airline operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is currently preparing an operational guideline to ensure safe flight operations around airports with 5G airwave infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>The plan includes:\n<ul>\n<li>telecom companies setting up infrastructure powering 5G networks in the country away from the flight path around airports,<\/li>\n<li>carrying low power signals in such areas and<\/li>\n<li>a plan to upgrade the altimeter of all aircraft operating in the country by August 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Concerns around 5G interference with flight operations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Concerns in India<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In September, the Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) wrote to the telecom department flagging concerns over the likely interference of 5G C-Band spectrum with aircraft radio altimeters.\n<ul>\n<li>A radio altimeter is an instrument that provides\u00a0<u>direct height-above-terrain<\/u>\u00a0information to various aircraft systems.<\/li>\n<li>These altimeters as well as a\u00a0<u>part of the 5G telecom services<\/u>\u00a0operate in the mid C-Band frequency range.<\/li>\n<li><u>5G terrestrial signals typically operate at a very heavy power level compared to flight altimeters<\/u>. This increases the possibility of interference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Earlier this year, the 6,000-pilot-strong Federation of Indian Pilots had also written to the Civil Aviation Ministry raising similar concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Similar concerns in US<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>So far, US aviation authorities have reported about 85 cases of 5G waves impacting flight operations near the airport.<\/li>\n<li>In the US, an agreement between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the telecom operators resulted in a delay in rollout of 5G services in the C-Band near airports that were assessed to be difficult for pilots to make visual approaches.\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier this year, Air India had to cancel some of its flights to the US.<\/li>\n<li>This was done amid concerns that the rollout of 5G mobile services in the US could potentially interfere with aircraft navigation systems.<\/li>\n<li>Since then, the FAA has issued several directives to\u00a0<u>airlines to install certain filters or modify their equipment to ensure that 5G airwaves<\/u>\u00a0do not interfere with their navigation systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Concerns raised by other industries<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>With the\u00a0<u>guard band between the 5G telecom and broadcast services narrowing sharply<\/u>, broadcasters have cited multiple incidents of disruptions.\n<ul>\n<li>A guard band is a narrow frequency range that separates two ranges of wider frequency.<\/li>\n<li>This ensures that simultaneously used communication channels do not experience interference, which would result in decreased quality for both transmissions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They raised concerns over\u00a0<u>possible interference and potential outages once full-scale 5G services are launched across the country<\/u>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>C-Band<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>C-band refers to the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum allotted for satellite transmissions in the 4GHz to 8GHz frequency range.<\/li>\n<li>The C band is used for many satellite communications transmissions, some Wi-Fi devices, some cordless telephones, as well as some Radar and weather radar systems.<\/li>\n<li>For telecom service providers, the C-Band presents a sweet spot for rolling out 5G services, ensuring coverage as well as high bandwidth, resulting in faster internet speeds.<\/li>\n<li>For aircraft operations, the use of altimeters in this band ensures highly precise measurements of the plane\u2019s altitude.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5G is the 5th generation mobile network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}