GE deploys first public-use RNP flight path in Alaska

GE Aviation’s PBN Services deployed the first public-use Required Navigation Performance (RNP) procedure in Alaska at Deadhorse. The optimized instrument approach procedures will increase schedule reliability into Deadhorse while reducing fuel burn, CO2 emssions and flight time. GE’s timely deployment of beneficial RNP procedures underscores the value of third-party navigation procedure designers to the U.S. airspace modernization effort. The Deadhorse procedures became available for public use just four months after GE submitted documentation to the FAA for processing, transmittal and publication. Last August, with the publication of an RNP instrument approach at Bradley Intl. Airport at Windsor Locks, Conn., GE became the first commercial third-party to deploy a public instrument flight procedure in the U.S.