RNAV approaches normally list several approach minimums to ensure as many aircraft as possible can fly the approach and provide operational flexibility if WAAS becomes unavailable.

What Is the Difference Between RNAV Z and Y Approaches? Broadly speaking, the Y approach is more geared toward single-engine, piston-powered aircraft, and the Z approach more appropriate for jets.

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 ...

Using RNAV RNP, Baur and Hughes Aerospace have established a new approach procedure with a decision height altitude of 282 feet and a half a mile of visibility.

Austrian Airlines claims its Boeing 737 fleet is the first in Europe to secure authorisation to perform approaches using the combined concepts of area navigation (RNAV) and required navigation ...

Sixteen new area navigation (RNAV) routes will soon open in the Memphis en route airspace. The new routes, part of FAA's high-altitude redesign effort, are expected to make use of airspace in the ...

HONEYWELL upgraded its GNS-XLS Enhanced Global Flight Management System to meet new European and U.S. Precision Area Navigation (P-RNAV) standards. The upgrades enable use of a 20-megabyte PCMCIA ...

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 ...

UAE implementing RNAV 1 at Abu Dhabi International Airport, to be rolled out across the Emirates FIR and introduced at other airports; New system to triple airspace capacity on available routes, ...