Portable GPS units are powerful supplemental tools for IFR flying, offering critical navigation data like precise ground track and vertical guidance, and enhancing situational awareness through ...

Modern GPS navigation systems in personal aircraft, while offering enhanced capability, introduce significant complexity requiring pilots to manage database currency, understand terms like RAIM and ...

The two-video course, ``Flying GPS Approaches--Featuring the KLN 89B,'' is designed to introduce pilots to GPS navigation. In Part 1, pilots learn how to go beyond ``direct to'' and use an IFR GPS.

Approved GPS approach procedures at several UK provincial airports are likely to go live for general aviation aircraft by July this year, according to the UK's Civil Aviation Authority. Simultaneously ...

Garmin International has received the first certification of a GPS wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) receiver providing instrument landing system (ILS) -like precision approach capability. The ...

The Federal Aviation Administration recently released a long-awaited list of redundant or under-utilized instrument approaches that the agency proposes eliminating in the continuing transition to the ...

A China Eastern Airlines Airbus A321 and a Shandong Airlines Boeing 737-800 flew a series of instrument approaches to the Shanghai Pudong International airport on April 29 using a Honeywell-built ...

No audio available for this content. The GNC 355 is a GPS navigator with localizer performance with vertical (LPV) approach guidance and a built-in communications radio. (Photo: Garmin) Garmin ...