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The author generally prefers RNAV (GPS) approaches over ILS approaches due to potential ILS signal issues and the complexities of switching CDI needles on some systems, which can lead to unintended ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...