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 ...

Experience a cockpit view approach and landing at Bonaire Flamingo Airport (TNCB) in a Boeing 787-9 (Dreamliner) on runway 10. This video showcases a visual RNP approach, featuring interesting facts, ...

RNP (Required Navigational Performance) approaches are advanced, GPS-based RNAV instrument procedures designed through collaboration to enable safe access to ...

Experience a cockpit view approach and landing at Santorini Thira Airport (LGSR) in a Boeing 737-800 on runway 15. This video ...

The article clarifies the distinct definitions of RNAV (Area Navigation), RNP (Required Navigation Performance), and PBN (Performance Based Navigation), emphasizing RNP's requirement for onboard ...

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 ...

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.

With the right equipment and training, there's now a safer way to fly the ILS 6, circle to 1 approach into Teterboro Airport. When winds blow from the northwest, pilots might fly the ILS 6, circle to ...

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 ...

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 ...

FOR YEARS, RESIDENTS IN SOUTH PORTLAND HAVE COMPLAINED ABOUT PLANES FLYING DIRECTLY OVERHEAD... DROWNING OUT ALL OTHER SOUND. NOW NEW TECHNOLOGY HAS OPENED UP A PATH FOR PLANES TO AVOID NEIGHBORHOODS ...