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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IndiGo has introduced the Required Navigation Performance Authorization Required (RNP AR) flight procedure for its operations into Kathmandu. IndiGo successfully operated the validation flight today, ...

Honeywell is working in concert with Gulfstream and Jeppesen to gain US Federal Aviation Administration approval for business aviation's first required navigation performance (RNP) instrument approach ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Stung by higher fuel costs, LAN Airlines flew Latin America's first flight on Thursday using a navigational system from takeoff to landing that it says will save time and money and ...

Rockwell Collins has been awarded a contract by the US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to assist government development of a standard set of interfaces for Required Navigation Performance Area ...

LIMA - Stung by higher fuel costs, LAN Airlines flew Latin America's first flight on Thursday using a navigational system from takeoff to landing that it says will save time and money and reduce ...

Captain Rajiv Singh, Head of Training at IndiGo, claims the air service provider to be the first amongst Indian carriers flying to Kathmandu to adopt the RNP AR flight procedure IndiGo Airlines has ...

IndiGo successfully conducted its first flight utilising the Required Navigation Performance with Authorization Required (RNP AR) approach on an A320 aircraft. An all women Inspectors team from DGCA ...