Student Team buliding cockpit anomaly detection - would love ATC perspectives!
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Hi everyone. We're a student team working on a project which is essentially a real-time anomaly detection system for commercial aircraft that uses a digital twin + ML to flag things like GPS spoofing and sensor drift through a cockpit advisory dashboard & we're looking for answers mainly from pilots and ATCs.
Before we go further, we want to make sure we're building something that would actually be useful to the people in the seat . We'd genuinely appreciate any perspectives you're willing to share, even a sentence or two.
A few questions:
How are you currently trained (if at all) to recognize GPS spoofing or other avionics anomalies in flight? Is this a meaningful part of your recurrent training, or more of a footnote?
When something feels "off" with navigation or a sensor, what's your current process for verifying it? Are you cross-checking INS/IRS, checking NOTAMs, relying on ATC?
If a dashboard gave you a plain-language advisory something like "GPS position diverging 2m from IRS track: possible spoofing" would that be genuinely useful in the moment, or would it add noise/cognitive load at a bad time?
What would a truly useful onboard anomaly tool actually look like to you? What would make you trust it? What would make you ignore it?
Are there threat types or failure modes that you feel current systems leave you underequipped to handle?
Thanks in advance, this kind of input is worth a lot to us.