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Performance-based navigation (PBN)

Navigation specifications from RNAV 10 to RNP AR, GNSS and its augmentations, databases, approvals, the EU PBN rule and GNSS interference, under ICAO, EASA and FAA guidance

By Aerospace Garage Desk · In practice · 50 minutes · 24 narrated pages

  1. Part 1 · Basics

    Airspace and separation: how air traffic control keeps aircraft apart

  2. Part 2 · In practice

    Performance-based navigation (PBN)You are here

  3. Part 3 · Managing it

    ADS-B and air traffic surveillance

  4. Part 4 · What's next

    6G and aviation: connectivity, spectrum and safety

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What you will be able to do

  • ✓ Explain the PBN concept, the difference between RNAV and RNP specifications, and how accuracy, integrity, continuity and total system error define navigation performance.
  • ✓ Match each ICAO navigation specification, from RNAV 10 to RNP AR APCH, to its accuracy, sensors, functions and phase of flight, and apply the half, one and two times RNP tolerances.
  • ✓ Describe how GNSS, SBAS and GBAS support PBN, and decide which line of LPV, LNAV/VNAV or LNAV minima can be used when augmentation or temperature limits apply.
  • ✓ Trace a procedure from design to the navigation database, recognise path terminator and altitude-constraint traps, and draw the lessons of ATSB investigation AO-2016-124.
  • ✓ Apply the airworthiness, operational approval and airspace requirements, including CS-ACNS, Part-SPA RNP AR approval and the dates of Regulation (EU) 2018/1048.
  • ✓ Recognise GNSS jamming and spoofing and plan resilient operations and dispatch decisions in line with EASA SIB 2022-02.

Course content

Session 1 · PBN: specifying performance, not equipment

1.1

  1. From beacons to performance · free preview
  2. The PBN concept: specification, infrastructure, application
  3. RNAV or RNP: the monitoring that makes the difference
  4. Worked example: building a total system error budget
Session 2 · The navigation specifications

1.2

  1. Oceanic and en route: RNAV 10, RNP 4, RNAV 5 and RNP 2
  2. Terminal airspace: RNAV 1, RNP 1 and Advanced RNP
  3. Approach: RNP APCH and RNP AR APCH
  4. Worked example: half, one and two times the RNP value
Session 3 · Satellite navigation and its augmentations

1.3

  1. GNSS: position and integrity from space
  2. SBAS: EGNOS, WAAS and LPV
  3. GBAS and the sensors behind GNSS
  4. Worked example: LPV, LNAV/VNAV or LNAV on a cold morning
Session 4 · Navigation databases and procedure coding

1.4

  1. From the published procedure to the aircraft
  2. Path terminators: how a path is coded
  3. Altitude constraints, charts and the crew's cross-check
  4. From the investigation file: a step-down fix missing from the database, Gold Coast 2016
Session 5 · Approvals and the European PBN rule

1.5

  1. Aircraft capability: certification and the flight manual
  2. Operator approval and RNP AR
  3. The European PBN rule and its deadlines
  4. Worked example: one aerodrome against the 2020, 2024 and 2030 dates
Session 6 · GNSS interference and operational resilience

1.6

  1. Jamming and spoofing: what they do to an aircraft
  2. Resilience on the ground: providers and procedures
  3. On the flight deck: recognising, reverting and reporting
  4. Worked example: a GNSS interference NOTAM at the destination

Who this course is for

  • Pilots and training staff moving to RNP and LPV approaches
  • Navigation data and procedure design staff tracing path terminator and altitude-constraint traps
  • Operations managers planning for GNSS jamming and spoofing

You need: Airspace and separation: how air traffic control keeps aircraft apart, or basic navigation knowledge.

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