Required Navigational Performance (RNP) approaches enable precise, curvilinear flight paths, crucial for safely accessing challenging airports like Aspen that cannot ...

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 ...

ICAO proposes renaming RNAV approach charts to RNP to standardize performance-based navigation (PBN) and simplify pilot understanding of required capabilities. The FAA and other international bodies ...

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 ...

A six-month test of customised required navigation performance (RNP) approach procedures in Australia could help accelerate wider use of practices that would boost efficiency and safety. RNP arrivals ...

Broad government-industry support is mounting to roll out many more Required Navigation Performance approaches in the U.S., but don't expect this to happen overnight. RNP's accuracy and integrity ...

[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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Stung by higher fuel costs, LAN Airlines flew Latin America's first flight on Thursday using a navigational system from takeoff to landing that it says will save time and money and ...