Flightglobal

ILS-RNP hybrid approach offers ‘best of both worlds’: Air Berlin

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 ...
Flightglobal

RNP at mid-sized airports promises big benefits: GE

Deploying required navigation performance (RNP) approaches at 46 mid-sized airports that are not presently the focus of the US FAA's NextGen scheme could save many millions of dollars worth of fuel, ...
Aviation Today

SESAR Launches Major Flight Demonstration Project for Augmented Approaches

[Avionics Today 12-23-2014] A new consortium formed by the Single European Sky ATM Research Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU) will perform more than 200 demonstration flights at airports throughout Europe ...
Aviation Week

Southwest Cites Several Factors For Low Use Of RNP Approaches

Southwest Airlines has equipped most of its aircraft, and trained their crews, but says utilization of fuel-saving required navigation performance (RNP) approach procedures is “remarkably low.” “There ...