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Australia unveils nationwide RNP project
When the Australians decide to go for something, they really go for it.

When the Australians decide to go for something, they really go for it. Example: the FAA awarded its nationwide automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) contract in 2007. The Aussies did it more than three years earlier.

Another example: the local area augmentation system (LAAS) is still in development in the U.S., and no operators are using it yet, other than on occasional non-revenue evaluation flights. Qantas, meanwhile, has its entire Boeing 737NG and Airbus A380 fleets equipped to fly the ground-based augmentation system (Australia’s LAAS) on all VFR approaches, including autolands, using an identical development system at Sydney, and has been doing so regularly since 2007.