ICAO proposes renaming RNAV approach charts to RNP to standardize performance-based navigation (PBN) titles and clearly indicate required navigational performance. The FAA and other international ...

GPS, originating from the Sputnik era, forms the backbone of modern aviation's Performance Based Navigation (PBN), which encompasses Area Navigation (RNAV) and Required Navigational Performance (RNP).

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 ...

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 ...

Gulfstream plans to offer Required Navigation Performance capability on its G450 and G550 large-cabin business jets with the support of Honeywell and Jeppesen. Gulfstream eventually will offer RNP on ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study, awarded to Helios Technology, will investigate the region's options for next area navigation development European air navigation organisation Eurocontrol has awarded UK consultancy Helios ...