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 ...

Austrian Airlines claims its Boeing 737 fleet is the first in Europe to secure authorisation to perform approaches using the combined concepts of area navigation ...

If you are heading up to the Finger Lakes region of New York for some hiking, biking, boating, fishing, skiing—or even just to visit a few vineyards for some wine tasting—you might choose to use the ...

Area navigation (RNAV) is a concept that predates the implementation of GPS by several decades. But it was with the advent of the latter, with its powerful microprocessors, compact size and global ...

Performance-based navigation (PBN), made up of area navigation (RNAV) and required navigation performance-authorization required (RNP-AR) sounds complicated. But in reality, it isn’t. Emirates’ Roger ...

Pilots of a SmartLynx Airbus A321 conducted a low approach to London Stansted because its crew had not realised that a revised arrival procedure, with a displaced threshold, was in place. The aircraft ...

Gulfstream plans to offer Required Navigation Performance capability on its G450 and G550 large-cabin business jets with the support of Honeywell and Jeppesen. Gulfstream eventually will offer RNP on ...

Answer: Pilots use precise navigation equipment, usually the Instrument Landing System (ILS), to maneuver the airplane laterally and vertically to land on the runway. If an ILS is not available, GPS ...