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Should IFR flight plans in the USA still have one waypoint per sector in 2023?
This is a holdover from the old HOST computer system that was installed in all enroute air traffic control facilities (ARTCC's) in the mid-70's. The original code was written in just 16MB of RAM. All ...
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Does RNAV and RNP specify what type of longitudinal accuracy the system has?
It does, but it's a different issue than just positional accuracy. The goal of RNAV is to keep the aircraft within the confines of the specified airspace. Longitudinally, you will always be within the ...
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What are RNP and ANP in area navigation?
RNP is a numerical value that refers to the level of performance required for a specific published procedure. If the procedure has an RNP 10, then the on-board navigation equipment must be able to ...
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1. Why does the glide slope guide you down to 0.7NM away from the runway? 2. Best way to circle from 28 to active runway 36?
First off: it doesn't. The approach has no vertical guidance. Once you've passed JIBDO you can drop all the way to the MDA as quickly as your plane is capable of. Below the MDA there is no guidance at ...
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Why is there a GPS/RNAV waypoint co-located with a VOR?
In the US, the FAA has done this alot, as in their long term plan to phase out a lot of the VORs. Doing that, they're preemptively just adding a Fix for procedures on top of the VOR so they don't have ...
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Why do RNAV airways exist?
RNAV freed aircraft from the airways that were already in place that may have zig zagged from VOR to VOR, but with the limitations of the ATC system based on human controllers, it is still desirable ...
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Does ATC prefer ILS over RNAV?
As egid pointed out, pilots typically do not file a specific approach as part of their flight plan. ATC will decide what runways and approaches are in use based on the weather. As the pilots are on ...
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Why are there no RNAV (ILS) approaches?
You are confusing some terminology.
RNAV (GPS) approaches can have several different sets of minima.
See the example RNAV (GPS) Y 28L at O'Hare:
It has:
LPV
LNAV/VNAV
LNAV
sets of minima.
LPV is an ...
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Why RNAV SIDs and STARs are RNAV 1 instead of RNP 1?
First of all, an RNP 1 procedure requires a GPS/ GNSS. And as you have said, it requires an inbuilt navigation monitoring and an alerting system. On the other hand, an RNAV 1 procedure does not. In ...
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Are rhumb lines ever used as leg paths for RNP/RNAV?
No. The FMS does not use rhumb lines.
All RNP/RNAV flight path legs are geodesics. The only exceptions are RF legs (a constant radius circular path about a turn center) and hold legs (a closed ...
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What is the lowest RNP approach requirement without being RNP AR?
In ICAO DOC 9905 (Required Navigation Performance Authorization Required Procedure Design Manual) you can find the following definition in Chapter 2.1
RNP APCH versus RNP AR APCH
2.1.1 RNP ...
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Are VOR airways being replaced by RNAV routes as VORs are decommissioned?
Short answer: there seems to be no general plan to replace airways with Q and T routes. The FAA originally proposed replacing them, but the final rule doesn't include it.
You can review the source ...
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What is the difference between a conventional and an RNAV holding?
A conventional hold based on legacy radio-navigation required overflying the hold fix on entry as guidance is only available inbound to the fix and your exact position is known at the fix (with some ...
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What is the reason to have LOC/VNAV landing method?
A VNAV with localiser approach is normally a backup to a regular ILS should there be a glide slope unserviceability. The use of VNAV to manage the vertical portion of the approach would allow the use ...
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How does CDI scaling transition from terminal to approach sensitivity?
Beginning 2NM prior to reaching the final approach fix of an activated approach, the GPS will smoothly taper down the CDI scale from 1-NM full-scale deflection (from the center) to 0.3-NM at full-...
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What is GPS HIL in layman's terms?
The true position of an aircraft in flight can be measured, but the accuracy of any measurement is limited. The actual measured position is the actual true position plus the actual measurement error. ...
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Why are there no RNAV (ILS) approaches?
The gist of your question is whether it is possible to couple RNAV with ILS? The following ILS chart of Cochin Airport (VOCI) is an ILS approach where Initial and Intermediate approach are executed ...
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Why RNAV SIDs and STARs are RNAV 1 instead of RNP 1?
Like a chart might state, RNAV 1 and then state that you require a GNSS. This essentially makes the procedure an RNP 1 procedure.
Not correct. “RNAV1 – GNSS required” means that you can fly the ...
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How to monitor MSA sector from an RNAV waypoint in the 737?
There is a way to do this in a 737NG using the FMC FIX page:
1 FIX Name
Enter the desired fix.
Valid entries are airports, navaids, waypoints or runway identifiers from the
navigation database. [...]
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Does RNAV and RNP specify what type of longitudinal accuracy the system has?
Unfortunately in the US many of the regulations are written to make it difficult to separate accuracy/integrity in the along-track direction from the cross-track direction. DO-229D claims this is &...
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Why was the rate of part 121 LPV equipage projected to be so low, and has that projection come true?
Short answer: Money.
Part 121 operators, i.e. airlines, are interested in profit and running an airline is a low margin business. Aircraft are very big capital expenses. They cost a lot every day in ...
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Why are there no RNAV (ILS) approaches?
RNAV(GPS) procedures being combined with LPV or LNAV/VNAV, which are
Landing Systems
Your confusion here is that LPV is a landing system which it is not. It is a way of saying your GPS is going to ...
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Does EASA allow using a portable GPS for RNAV capability?
The answer, broadly is no, handheld GPS units can not be used for IFR RNAV routes (or approaches for that matter). To know if a specific GPS unit is legal for IFR navigation you need to check up on a ...
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Must RAIM be checked in flight before every GPS approach or is a preflight check acceptable?
The FAA website predicts pre-flight whether RAIM will be available
The RAIM algorithm will tell you during your flight if GPS is working correctly.
The pre-flight FAA website check is not a ...
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