[Avionics Magazine 05-09-2016] Europe has established its first Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance (LPV)-200 approaches at Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) in Paris, France, according to the ...

Thales recently won an FAA award for up to 300 ILS systems, to be installed between 2007 and 2013. Many will replace older equipment, but at least 100 systems will provide precision approaches at new ...

Swedish MRO provider Taby Air Maintenance has received European regulatory approval for a new modification kit to help operators of Saab 2000 aircraft comply with performance-based navigation ...

Duncan Aviation received its supplemental type certificate for installation of WAAS/LPV capabilities aboard Bombardier Learjet 31A aircraft. The STC was issued through the Duncan organization ...

A Dassault Falcon 2000LXS has become the first business jet to fly an instrument approach with a published localizer performance with vertical guidance (LPV) minima of 200ft (LPV200), using the ...

No audio available for this content. On May 3, the first LPV-200 approaches were implemented at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (LFPG) — the first such approaches to be implemented in Europe. The ...

LNAV/VNAV minimums are a bit of a mystery to most U.S. pilots. That's probably because they're rarely encountered, except at the relatively few airports with RNAV (GPS) approaches that have LNAV/VNAV ...

Indigo using its ATR aircraft has flown an IAP with LPV minima of 250 feet, using GAGAN Service. Recently, the Airports Authority of India successfully conducted flight trials using GAGAN (GPS Aided ...

Over half of U.S. instrument approach procedures are RNAV, with 1884 having LPV minimums, many of which benefit General Aviation at non-Part 139 airports. The development process for instrument flight ...

The first LPV IFR approach in Europe was flown using a Falcon 2000, ATR 42-600 and Airbus A350. Falcon 2000 test pilots flying the first Egnos-enabled LPV-200 IFR approach to Charles de Gaulle Airport ...

Helicopter is equipped with dual Universal Avionics UNS-1Espw SBAS-FMSs and uses four-axis coupled modes in the pseudo-ILS mode down to circling minimums. A CHC Helikopter Service Sikorsky S-92 ...