ICAO's proposal to re-title RNAV approach charts as RNP is facing significant resistance, particularly from the FAA and other international bodies. The opposition is driven by concerns over costly ...

"Everything is RNAV, but RNP has come to mean something more–RNAV with extras, if you like, where the main extra is containment." Whatever the technology, RNP ensures that the aircraft is contained ...

The launch of Sputnik catalyzed the development of satellite navigation, which evolved into GPS and now forms the essential backbone of aviation's Performance Based Navigation (PBN), encompassing RNAV ...

[Avionics Today 07-22-2015] The U.S. Navy is supporting greater levels of software reuse through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Rockwell Collins for Required Navigation ...

Defining required navigation performance (RNP) is fairly straightforward: it is the level of navigation performance necessary for operating an aircraft within a defined airspace. RNP is based on area ...

Rockwell Collins has completed the new required navigation performance-area navigation (RNP-RNAV) upgrade for the US Army’s CH-47F Chinook helicopters. The upgrade ...

Several elements of the Next Generation Air Transportation System depend on GPS-based area navigation (RNAV) and required navigation performance (RNP). FAA completed an audit to strengthen NAS ...

Area navigation (RNAV) Required Navigation Procedure with Authorization Required (RNP AR) instrument approach and departure procedures are key components of the FAA's Next Generation air traffic ...

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 ...