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 ...
Air Berlin’s Boeing 737 fleet chief and pilot Michail Tounas says a hybrid approach the German carrier is using at Innsbruck airport “combines the best of both worlds” between traditional radio-based ...
Existing primary flight instrumentation "is no longer adequate and safe for the developing RNP (required navigation performance) environment", says the International Federation of Air Line Pilots ...