Standard phraseology is essential to ensure effective crew communication, particularly in today's operating environment, which increasingly features Two-crewmember operation and, International / worldwide contexts involving crewmembers with different native languages…. Continue Reading →
Boeing has developed a vertical situation display to help prevent controlled flight into terrain and approach and landing accidents. In addition, the vertical situation display is designed to reduce airline operating costs by decreasing the number of missed approaches, tail strikes, and hard landings and by reducing vertical navigation training time…. Continue Reading →
Precision-RNAV (P-RNAV) is the natural progression from Basic RNAV (B-RNAV) which became mandatory in European Airspace in April 1998 for en-route operations. Initial application is in the Terminal Area and P-RNAV track keeping equates to cross track accuracy of RNP 1 ( or – 1NM). P-RNAV procedures are designed to a common set of design…… Continue Reading →
The International Civil Aviation Organization and other authorities recommend backup inertial-reference systems, ground-based navaids, and radar surveillance and vectoring to mitigate interference — unintentional and intentional — with navigation signals from space. Improved satellites and augmentation systems will help to lessen risks under instrument flight rules…. Continue Reading →