The South African Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has approved instrument approach procedures at eight airports, the Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) announced on Tuesday. It said critical ...

An outdated GPS database makes it illegal to fly GPS instrument approaches, as procedures must be retrievable from a current database updated every 28 days. However, the aircraft is not grounded for ...

Although a move to satellite-based navigation is a fundamental tenet of NextGen, the FAA says it will keep at least one legacy ground-based instrument approach procedure (IAP) at each U.S. airport ...

Canada's Minister of Transport Marc Garneau announced (27-Aug-2019) a CAD7.4 million (USD5.6 million) investment in NAV CANADA's new global navigation satellite system (GNSS) instrument approach ...

Area navigation (RNAV) is a concept that predates the implementation of GPS by several decades. But it was with the advent of the latter, with its powerful microprocessors, compact size and global ...

What are the biggest challenges new instrument students face? (February 2011) — Eric Radtke is an airline transport pilot, Gold Seal flight instructor, advanced ground instructor and NAFI-accredited ...