TotalBeginner
26th Jan 2011, 12:13
From the 7th April 2011, the CAA intend to reduce the level at which aircraft are required to comply with B-RNAV in controlled airspace...
Article HERE (http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=14&pagetype=65&appid=7&newstype=n&mode=detail&nid=1961)
IO540
26th Jan 2011, 13:57
Aircraft operating on Air Traffic Service (ATS) routes above Flight Level 95 have been required to comply with B-RNAV since 1998. It is now intended that B-RNAV will be required for aircraft operating on ATS routes below this level from 7 April 2011.That appears to refer to Eurocontrol flight plans only, and may affect people who don't have a BRNAV approved IFR GPS installation but who managed to get about below FL095. I think most of those were doing it because they are not carrying oxygen.
CAA Director of Airspace Policy, Mark Swan, explained: “Extending B-RNAV to lower levels of controlled airspace will mean that aircraft will be able to fly with greater accuracy and enable us to make the changes to the UK’s airspace structure that are needed to ensure we maintain a safe and efficient system for all airspace users.”which means more or less nothing, since everybody flying in that airspace will have been navigating to a far higher accuracy for years :)
It's a bit like imposing a speed limit on bicycles of 100mph.
I wonder what makes somebody in the CAA wake up one day and say "we must have BRNAV in this airspace"... it's already CAS and everybody in there is flying under a Radar Control Service :ugh:
Fortunately, if you have a CDI installed appropriately, the approval should be below 4 figures. Not so for PRNAV which will be the next thing which somebody will wake up with... that will be 5 figures.