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Old 18th Aug 2013, 14:19
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The FAA as well as EASA need to establish and approve GPS/LPV approaches at all airports in lieu on the traditional N/P/As.

It will help to keep pilots out of the dirt a mile short of the runway, with the advances in the glass cockpit for both GA and Transport Category Aircraft. TAWS technology could be improved too.
This runway does not qualify for LPV, LNAV/VNAV, or ILS because the necessary qualifying visual segment areas are not sufficiently free of obstacles. This is true of many runway ends. There also has to be the correct type of survey, which many smaller airports are unwilling to pay for. (that is not the limitation at KBHM).
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