CommercialAirliner Style PBN for Helicopters A collaborative use of instrument flight rules procedures and new flight control systems from Hughes Aerospace, working with the FAA, Garmin and AeroNavData, has produced the world’s first use of radius to
Business & GAEBAA: Euro Business Aviation to Soar Under New PBN Rule The European Business Aviation Association publically welcomed the European Commission's new performance-based navigation implementing rule (PBN-IR), which specifies requirements for PBN usage by airspace. The organization claims that the PBN mandate will increase…
Embedded AvionicsPerformance-Based Navigation as a Redundancy for GPS What do you do if you're in the air and your GPS goes out? Eurocontrol, with the help of the European Organization for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE), is working on a…
ATM ModernizationEurocontrol's Database Can Help Prep for PBN Deployment Eurocontrol said that its communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) dashboard already has 244 users. Since its public release in April, it has gained 84 air navigation service providers, 12 airports, 17 operators…
CommercialHow an Emirates A380 Captain is Using PBN to Improve Flying Performance-based navigation (PBN), made up of area navigation (RNAV) and required navigation performance-authorization required (RNP-AR) sounds complicated. But in reality, it isn’t. Emirates’ Roger Hall, RNAV project lead and Airbus A380 captain,…