Correct me if I'm wrong but in order to fly IT as an RNAV procedure, you would actually have to be approved for that. I.e. Aircraft RNP APP approved and THE operator must be approved as well for those operations?
Flying a B747 at the moment, our company is approved, however the 74 is limited to RNP 5 and 1 as per FCOM limitations section. So only LNAV/VNAV approaches of regular approaches. Monitoring navaids is not required as long as 2 FMC's are operational etc, etc according to FCTM.
When an approach is published as RNAV(GNSS) whe are not allowed to fly that approach!
Am I wrong in thinking that if for example the ILS in AMS is out, I can't legally fly a localiser approach to that runway, eventhough it is published in the FMS?
I know, from the component inop table, I can skip navaids required for intermidiate fixes if I have a GPS to determine that fix for example, but to fly a loc only approach when the entire ILS is U/S, I was under the impression that that was not allowed.
Thanks for possible enlightenment.