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Old 29th Mar 2012, 17:22
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peterh337
 
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Yes; a number of airports around Europe (Zurich LSZH is one, from memory) have no non-PRNAV SIDs or STARs.

Many more have no non-RNAV SIDs/STARs.

But ATC doesn't care. If they did, the majority of traffic would be unable to go there.

Most but not all of the airports say that non PRNAV aircraft are allowed, by advising ATC.

The ridiculous thing is that anybody who can fly the published procedures using GPS, which is just about anybody with half modern avionics and an autopilot, can fly them to RNP 0.3 without even touching the yoke

The whole thing is a job creation scheme, which is why the FAA has done the concession in US airspace; they know that PRNAV is meaningless when they have been approving GPS approaches for about 13-15 years.

The problem with getting this crap in enroute airspace is that Eurocontrol will eventually be rejecting flight plans which don't declare PRNAV, so to fly at all will have to lie about it.
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