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 ...

Performance-based navigation (PBN), a key element in FAA’s NextGen air traffic control modernization initiative, is moving ahead, although at a somewhat slower pace than some airlines would like.

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 ...

The first required navigation performance approach into this new airport in a mountainous valley is a sign of things to come as China plans to certify up to 50 more RNP procedures at ...

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 ...

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, ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Stung by higher fuel costs, LAN Airlines flew Latin America's first flight on Thursday using a navigational system from takeoff to landing that it says will save time and money and ...

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, ...

Approach procedure suffixes (e.g., 'Z', 'Y') indicate multiple straight-in approaches of the same type to a single runway, primarily designed to accommodate more aircraft by offering different ...