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An airspace 1st! High-tech flight path debuts in U.S. (Aug '10)
Today’s American Airlines flight 1916 from Dallas/Fort Worth to Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport just landed in the aviation history books — and marked a new era in U.S. airspace modernization. Captain Brian Will flew the 737 using a high-tech, computerized flight path known as RNP — which stands for Required Navigation Performance technology. Put simply, RNP allows planes to follow highly precise, customized, gently curving paths that eliminate the inefficient straight-line flight segments — most noticeable in stair step landing approaches — that take longer to fly, burn more fuel, churn out more emissions and can add to air traffic congestion and delayed flights. What makes today’s flight historic is that it’s the first time a U.S. flight has used a publicly available, commercially designed RNP flight path. Prior to the path becoming a permanent fixture at Bradley, the FAA had designed all public RNP paths in the U.S. Now, with a third party — GE Aviation’s Naverus business — getting the green light to publish the path, the gateway is open for widespread adoption of the technology. As GE’s Steve Fulton says in the audio interview below, “Our vision is that there are going to be thousands of these procedures required as part of the transition underway in the United States.”
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