Leveraging technology to improve operations
Modern navigation techniques offer accuracy and confidence to airline operators, air traffic control and airports.
By leveraging this technology, all aviation stakeholders can benefit from shorter track miles, improved access and enhanced safety.
Core to Airbus’ offer is the ability to support RNP AR implementation. RNP AR – Required Navigation Performance with Authorisation Required – is an ICAO Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) navigation specification based on satellite positioning.
Authorising a navigation accuracy from 0.3NM down to 0.1NM and turns after the final approach point, the RNP AR concept offers significant operational and safety benefits, positively impacting fuel consumption and pilot workload.
Our consultants have supported the aviation community for 15 years by improving the use of airspace and implementing RNP AR around the world.
RNP AR Implementation
Targeted implementation of RNP AR can improve access to low visibility airports, allow improved trajectories through mountainous terrain, exploit aircraft performance at high-altitude, avoid areas of known extreme turbulence, increase capacity for independent parallel runway operations and improve payload for departures in an obstacle-rich environment.
Implementation encompasses:
- Equipping aircraft for RNP AR
- Instrument Flight Procedure Design
- Operational Approvals
- Pilot and ATC training
The Airbus Toolkit
Airbus’ end-to-end solution ensures airlines are supported at every step of the process, includes the following:
- Support for RNP AR upgrade on the aircraft
- Procedure design, adapted to specific operational challenges:
- RNP AR down to 0.1
- RNP AR departures
- RNP AR to ILS
- Operational approval including Flight Operations Safety Assessment (FOSA)
- Crew training
- Support to regulators and ATC
Airbus adapts the procedure to the aircraft type and provides a modular offer to each customer’s needs.
RNP AR Operational Approvals
Airbus provides airlines with the support they need to prepare for PBN and that the necessary approvals have been obtained from the authorities.
For RNP AR approvals Airbus can provide support for the Flight Operational Safety Assessment (FOSA), delivered for agreed aircraft configurations and airport procedures.
Airbus can support the deployment of pre-requisite hardware and software upgrades to allow the aircraft to perform RNP AR operations.
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