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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Honeywell is working in concert with Gulfstream and Jeppesen to gain US Federal Aviation Administration approval for business aviation's first required navigation performance (RNP) instrument approach ...

Deploying required navigation performance (RNP) approaches at 46 midsized airports that are not now the focus of the US NextGen airspace overhaul could save many millions of dollars worth of fuel, ...

IndiGo has introduced the Required Navigation Performance Authorization Required (RNP AR) flight procedure for its operations into Kathmandu. IndiGo successfully operated the validation flight today, ...

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 ...

Captain Rajiv Singh, Head of Training at IndiGo, claims the air service provider to be the first amongst Indian carriers flying to Kathmandu to adopt the RNP AR flight procedure IndiGo Airlines has ...

LIMA - 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 reduce ...

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 ...

PANAJI: In a significant boost for civil and military flying operations, naval airbase INS Hansa has become the very first Joint-User International Aerodrome in the South-Asia Pacific region to be ...