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 ...

Austrian conducted an RNP RNAV approach – the first in Europe – to Innsbruck’s runway 26 in June. “This [new approach procedure] enables substantially improved and safer course guidance, especially in ...

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 ...

RNP (Required Navigational Performance) approaches enable aircraft to safely access challenging airports, such as Aspen, by allowing for flexible, curvilinear flight ...

Performance-based navigation procedures are saving the airline industry millions of dollars in fuel, cutting emissions and increasing efficiency, industry officials say. At a press conference Tuesday ...

Rockwell Collins has been awarded a contract by the US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to assist government development of a standard set of interfaces for Required Navigation Performance Area ...

The desire to free aviation from dependence on fixed routes defined by ground-based navaids–a concept known as free flight–has produced technologies that permit more direct flights from point to point ...

Carriers urge FAA to make development of arrival and departure procedures a priority US airlines have cautioned the Federal Aviation Administration not to overlook the benefits of basic ...

FAA is on track to meet its early goals for introducing more approach and departure routes based on required navigation performance (RNP) and area navigation (RNAV), agency Associate Administrator for ...