Airbus’ QuoVadis and IndiGo demonstrate first RNP approach in India
At India’s seventh busiest airport, the Cochin International Airport, Airbus’ QuoVadis RNP subsidiary and IndiGo have successfully demonstrated the first required navigation performance (RNP) using an Airbus A320 flight of any commercial airliner in India.
Specially developed by QuoVadis, the RNP procedure for this airport was validated using Airbus flight simulators. Following this successful flight by IndiGo, Jet Airways will soon demonstrate this procedure at the airport using a Boeing 737-800. Together, all operators with ‘RNP capable’ aircraft will benefit from RNP approaches at Cochin airport, once the new procedures have been officially published by the authorities.
According to QuoVadis, RNP approaches are a great way to achieve savings while improving safety. RNP navigation has the necessary flexibility to optimise and segregate trajectories from non-RNP traffic, terrain and obstacles.
