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Performance-Based Navigation Is Gaining Momentum
On a 2000 flight into Juneau, Alaska, AIN saw firsthand the value of RNP. Commencing from the south above 10,000 feet, the aircraft flies a straight descent path along the center of Gastineau Channel, with a 30-degree left turn at 500 feet onto final for Runway 26.
On a 2000 flight into Juneau, Alaska, AIN saw firsthand the value of RNP. Commencing from the south above 10,000 feet, the aircraft flies a straight descent path along the center of Gastineau Channel, with a 30-degree left turn at 500 feet onto final for Runway 26.

At ICAO’s General Assembly of world aviation nations in 2010, individual member states were requested to commit to national performance based navigation (PBN) implementation plans covering their en route and terminal airspace, plus approach procedures with vertical guidance (LPV/APV) for all their instrument runway ends–as primary or back-up for precision approaches–by 2016, with 70 percent completion targeted by 2014.