Online Journal of Space Communication
Article Title
Abstract
The U.S. NAVSTAR GPS communications satellite network, integrated with the FAA's Wide Area Augmentation System, or WAAS, provides improvements in GPS accuracy and integrity for aviation navigation throughout the U.S. National Airspace System. WAAS has allowed the FAA to move toward a performance-based NAS, exploiting the concept of "required navigation performance," or RNP. The FAA, in cooperation with aviation stakeholders, is implementing performance-based navigation in the U.S. NAS. Two key components of performance-based navigation are Area Navigation (RNAV) and RNP. These components allow the flexibility to design more efficient airspace and instrument procedures that improve safety, access, capacity and efficiency.
Recommended Citation
Cabler, Hank and Williams, Jeff
(2021)
"Space Communication and Aviation Navigation: The United States Moves towards Performance-Based Navigation,"
Online Journal of Space Communication: Vol. 5:
Iss.
9, Article 14.
Available at:
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/spacejournal/vol5/iss9/14
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