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Old 16th Mar 2015, 01:08
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What is more interesting is he obligation to follow certain rules to actually perform an RNAV-AR APP :you need certified aircraft, certified and trained crews , a certified airport and trained air traffic controllers . It is not because it is in the aircraft data base that you can use it . And there lies our first problem.
In the U.S. it won't be in your database unless all certification and qualifications have been met.

I would add to the experts take on RNP AR. AB's airplanes that can do RNP AR 0.30 approaches are ready and able to do RNP 0.10. If a pilot flying into VNTK is worried about being offset up to 0.30, he/she can force the FMS to use 0.10. Thus, the 5% probability maximum offset would be 608 feet. An FMS calculated exceedence in excess of RNP 0.10 would alert 'Unable RNP."

And, of course, the RNP AR pilot is always seeing a value for ANP.
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