The FAA has significantly expanded options for air traffic controllers to clear RNAV-equipped aircraft onto approaches, including direct to intermediate or step-down fixes on both RNAV and ...
Austrian conducted an RNP RNAV approach – the first in Europe – to Innsbruck’s runway 26 in June. “This [new approach procedure] enables substantially improved and safer course guidance, especially in ...
Garmin’s SmartCharts promise a cleaner, more intuitive way to brief and fly instrument procedures on the iPad—but how do they hold up in the real world, especially when ATC throws a curveball? In this ...
ICAO proposes renaming RNAV approach charts to RNP to standardize performance-based navigation (PBN) and simplify pilot understanding of required capabilities. The FAA and other international bodies ...
The FAA published four new RNAV instrument approach procedures for Boeing Field/King County International Airport (BFI) to improve access and reduce noise. The NBAA reported the new approaches include ...
I am continuing my instrument rating training so that I can become IFR rated. Being an instrument rated pilot I feel will make me a safer pilot. I have been training in my Piper Cherokee 235 and it ...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has taken the highly unusual step of suspending the RNAV (GPS) Z approach to Runway 32 at Steamboat Springs Airport (KSBS) in Colorado, a procedure many ...
When loading an RNAV Approach into the FMC during preflight it does not prompt a transition on the approach after prompting for MIN PROF. When you select the approach, it goes to the MIN PROF, but ...