AIRPORT CAPACITY/PERFORMANCE-BASED NAVIGATION
November 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL, IN MONTRÉAL
DELEGATES at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)'s 12th Air Navigation Conference have approved a comprehensive plan for sustainably increasing airport traffic management capacity, taking account of developing technologies.
Based on ICAO's system of block upgrades, delegates backed a focus under the current technology-based Block 0 to reform wake turbulence categorisation, with approach procedures optimising GNSS-based performance-based navigation (PBN) approaches and making traffic flow improvements through ...
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