GPS has evolved from its Sputnik-era origins to become the essential backbone of modern aviation's Performance Based Navigation (PBN), encompassing efficient RNAV and precise RNP operations. The ...
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 ...
RNP (Required Navigational Performance) is an advanced GPS-based RNAV instrument approach enabling safe, curvilinear flight paths into challenging airports where standard approaches are not feasible.
[Avionics Today 07-22-2015] The U.S. Navy is supporting greater levels of software reuse through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Rockwell Collins for Required Navigation ...
Area navigation (RNAV) Required Navigation Procedure with Authorization Required (RNP AR) instrument approach and departure procedures are key components of the FAA's Next Generation air traffic ...
US Airways flight technical operations manager Mike Davis sounds a warning as he starts a presentation on required navigation procedures: "You will hear me talk a lot about 'containment' today." Davis ...