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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JetBlue Airways was awarded FAA approval to fly Required Navigation Performance- Authorization Required (RNP AR) approaches to Runways 13L and 13R at its home base at New York’s John F. Kennedy ...

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 ...

After a decade of debate, wrangling and setbacks, the Federal Aviation Administration has established the first comprehensive procedures for safer and more precise landings in all kinds of weather ...

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, ...

Boeing is working with Lion Air to implement satellite-based approaches at Indonesian airports. In conjunction with Indonesian aviation authorities, Boeing and Lion are introducing required navigation ...

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, ...

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) ...

RNP stands for “required navigational performance,” and it indicates a special level of RNAV instrument approach made possible by a collective effort between the approach designer—in this case, ...

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