In August 2021, I participated in an inspection flight of a new approach procedure at one of the most challenging airports to land at in the U.S., Colorado’s Eagle County (KEGE) with Hughes Aerospace ...

Air Berlin’s Boeing 737 fleet chief and pilot Michail Tounas says a hybrid approach the German carrier is using at Innsbruck airport “combines the best of both worlds” between traditional radio-based ...

Existing primary flight instrumentation "is no longer adequate and safe for the developing RNP (required navigation performance) environment", says the International Federation of Air Line Pilots ...

With its proven ability to ease air-traffic congestion, save fuel and facilitate approaches to airports that are encumbered by weather or terrain, performance-based navigation (PBN) is now an option ...

Brisbane airport has finished trialling a flight system that helps planes keep precisely to a preordained flight path, which reduces aircraft carbon emissions by 650 tonnes, saves time, saves fuel, ...

Alaska Airlines is introducing required navigation performance (RNP) approaches at two more regional airports in Alaska. The carrier yesterday debuted an RNP approach in Adak, and will add another at ...

Performance-based navigation (PBN) procedures are being adopted on a worldwide basis. ICAO resolution A37-11 calls for the implementation of GNSS approach procedures with vertical guidance (APV) ...

Recently, GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes ( GOL) has been declared to be the first Brazilian airline to use RNP-AR-Approach (Required Navigation Performance). This environment friendly approach, ...

CHURCH FENTON, ENGLAND—A new era is to begin Aug. 10 for Leeds East Airport as a new RNP (required navigation performance) instrument approach is scheduled to become operational and the facility’s ...

For most flight department managers, the thought of navigating the maze of FAA rules to fly required navigation performance (RNP) approach procedures is en FAA Lifts ATC Restrictions, General Aviation ...