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Old 6th Apr 2008, 07:55
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737incognito
 
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I agree with ATPL.

Most European SID & STARS are B-RNAV (exc. Stockholm Arlanda, Copenhagen and AMS STAR during night). Nav aid or rwy track is provided bellow MSA and sophisticated ATC radar is used as back-up should single RNAV source (as req for both B-RNAV and P-RNAV) should fail after takeoff.

Somewhere on Eurocontrol or ECAC (not shure at this point) web pages there are country per country RNAV status (P- or B-RNAV)

There is a miscocnception between a lot of people that P-RNAV is same as RNP1. Only required precision is the same but other aspects are not like P-RNAV requires only 1 RNAV system (ref. JAA TGL 10), while any RNP is a standalone system so there have to be double FMS (or GPS) for back-up
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