TCAS - To Avoid or Not?

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TCAS - To Avoid or Not?

#1 Post by llondel » Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:16 am

Interesting article in The Register today about how TCAS could be vulnerable to spoofing, so you'd be flying along and get an alert when there was nothing around.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/30/ ... e_systems/

It references a paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.14679.pdf

It seems they can do it in a lab but are some way from demonstrating that it can be done in the real world.

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Re: TCAS - To Avoid or Not?

#2 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Jun 30, 2020 9:40 pm

Creating ghosts in the machine. I suspect it would be relatively easy to do.

Interesting article, paper and thread.
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Re: TCAS - To Avoid or Not?

#3 Post by Alisoncc » Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:37 am

Reminds me of a recent re-run of an Air Craft Investigation episode "1 July 2002, Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, and DHL Flight 611" in a pending collision where I think the TCAS told an aircraft to climb whilst the ATC told them to descend. Interesting to conjecture as to who had control.
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