The widespread adoption of GPS/WAAS (APV/LPV) approaches with vertical guidance has significantly diminished the availability of traditional non-precision approaches. This presents a challenge for ...

The article contrasts the old "dive and drive" method for non-precision approaches with the current FAA standard of a "stabilized, constant-angle descent" from the Final Approach Fix (FAF) to the ...

Re non-precision approaches, my contention is much simpler than Andreas Jacobs imagines (Letters, Flight International, 4-10 June). Statistically, non-precision approaches are high on the list of ...

Capt Prakash Goday (Letters, 21-27 May) draws the conclusion that because of the Air China crash at Busan (Flight International, 23-29 April) and “similar crashes”, non-precision approaches are “no ...

The two privately funded precision instrument approach procedures at Monmouth Executive Airport have lower minimums than the non-precision approaches that were originally approved for the airport.