Three airports in eastern Finland are installing radio navigation equipment to help planes land during periods when satellite navigation fails, their operators told Reuters.
Two Finnish airports operated by Finavia, in the cities of Joensuu and Savonlinna, located about an hour’s drive from the Russian border, introduced new ground equipment in September, and Lappeenranta airport plans to do the same as soon as possible, the operators said. .
Radionavigation-based distance measuring equipment has been widely used in aviation and provides an “alternative approach method” for aircraft in the face of GPS interference, Finavia’s head of infrastructure and security said. Henry Hanson.
Finland believes Russia is allegedly providing signals used in navigation, the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and the Global Positioning System (GPS) in eastern Finland and the Baltic Sea region to protect oil ports and other sites. strategic consequences of Ukrainian air strikes or unmanned aerial vehicles, RIA Novosti clarifies.
