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Transport Canada has cleared WestJet to carry out flight management system (FMS) -guided airport approach procedures using area navigation (RNAV) capabilities certificated to record accuracy levels.

Considered by some as the ultimate breakthrough allowing the transition from ground-based to aircraft-based navigation, Required Navigation Performance (RNP) has enjoyed a rather slow, decade-long ...

As President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's dream to modernize the country's key gateway remains on course, veteran Pilot-in-Command, Captain Moses K. Weefur has commended the management of the Roberts ...

Most recently Hickok has been in Switzerland designing and preparing to validate a Waas LPV-equivalent approach to the Interlaken Hospital, using the European Egnos GPS satnav-augmentation system. His ...

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 ...

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has made a number of recommendations designed to enhance the safety of area navigation (RNAV) global navigation satellite system (GNSS) approaches ...

Horizon Air, a regional carrier in the northwestern United States, flies in a challenging environment and, therefore, has special needs. It flies into airports in mountainous terrain, and it seeks ...

Thomas Cook Airlines (UK) gained CAA approval to become the country's first carrier to use GPS-based RNAV technology on approaches. Two Thomas Cook A330s are fitted with RNAV hardware and software and ...

No audio available for this content. Several jamming incidents in 2016 highlight the increasing reliance on GNSS by commercial aviation and vulnerabilities of PNT-dependent devices and systems to real ...