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 ...

Airspace modernization is an enormously complex task. But aviation industry stakeholders are seeking safe passage through “NowGen” the period when performance-based navigation technologies are ...

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 ...

Horizon Air plans to capitalize on lessons learned with Required Navigation Performance procedures in Oregon to start RNP operations with its Dash 8 turboprops at nearly a dozen other airports. Like ...

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The FAA is making progress toward instituting a future Rnav and RNP (required navigation performance) environment across the National Airspace System (NAS) Private aviation group has plans to add ...

Performance-based Navigation (PBN) is a framework for defining navigation performance requirements (embodied in "navigation specifications") that can be applied to an air traffic route, instrument ...