RNAV GPS approaches are widely adopted, utilizing GPS and WAAS for navigation, with most requiring a 0.3 nm Required Navigational Performance (RNP) for accurate tracking. Approach types vary by ...

The two-video course, ``Flying GPS Approaches--Featuring the KLN 89B,'' is designed to introduce pilots to GPS navigation. In Part 1, pilots learn how to go beyond ``direct to'' and use an IFR GPS.

Bad weather conditions will be less of a deterrent for humanitarian and medical flight pilots who need to land at Finleyville Airport, now that it has a GPS approach for landing. Tom Riemer of ...

In September, I talked about what I call the myth of activating the approach. Many pilots seem to feel they need to activate something in their GPS to fly an approach. As I pointed out, I often hear ...

GPS approaches are a fact of life, authorised or not. In the GA community they often are not. So what should regulators do? It may look slow off the mark to countries like the USA, Canada and New ...

Have you ever tried to use a GPS receiver indoors? Chances are, unless you were on the top floor of a wood-frame house and using a receiver with ample antenna gain, you couldn’t get a position fix.

Easily become an airplane or commercial pilot online! Courses designed by industry experts can help you pass FAA tests and get into the sky! Any onboard computer-generated glideslope requires WAAS, ...