As an approach tool, Required Navigation Performance has the potential to offer significant benefits: Improved safety, more direct approaches, fewer diversions for weather, reduced fuel burn and, as a result, cost savings for airlines. There are environmental benefits too: Less wasted fuel means reduced harmful emissions and improved track-keeping on departure and approach means less noise nuisance.
As an approach tool, Required Navigation Performance has the potential to offer significant benefits: Improved safety, more direct approaches, fewer diversions for weather, reduced fuel burn and, as a result, cost savings for airlines. There are environmental benefits too: Less wasted fuel means reduced harmful emissions and improved track-keeping on departure and approach means less noise nuisance. But RNP already has been 15 years in the making and full implementation, especially in ...
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