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 ...

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, ...

[Avionics Today 03-03-2016] Denver International Airport (DEN) has flown 30,000 Required Navigation Performance (RNP) approaches, according to Southwest, an advocate in RNP implementation working ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...