Avionics
Hughes and Garmin Expand Guided Visual Approaches
Database now covers 64 approaches at 48 airports

Garmin’s Guided Visual Approaches database has more than doubled since its 2025 launch and now includes 64 approaches at 48 airports, developed with instrument procedure designer Hughes Aerospace. The latest batch of 18 approaches, which Garmin released in July, added 13 airports, including Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport (KLAS), San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport (KOAK), and Chicago DuPage Airport (KDPA).

Sold as a Garmin database subscription, the “RNAV G” procedures provide lateral and vertical guidance on visual approaches to airports surrounded by terrain, obstacles, or bright city lights at night. According to the companies, the guidance helps crews in turbine aircraft fly stabilized approaches while keeping their attention outside the airplane and on the runway.

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