Ensuring the safety and efficiency of flight procedures is crucial for modern air traffic management. When it comes to implementing Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) procedures, such as RNAV/RNP, RNP APCH or RNP AR, a thorough validation process is essential. NLR’s Flight Procedure Validation can support you in substantiating your decision to perform a Ground or Flight validation, conducting a ‘desktop’, simulator or in-flight validation of PBN procedures.
Our expertise can also provide you with a deeper understanding of the validation process itself, as well as the capabilities to assess new requirements on flight procedures.
NLR can support you with:
- Validation of Flight Procedures, as holder of the EASA certificate for Flight Procedure Design Service Provider, with the service – Validation of Flight Procedures ( EU 2017/373)
- Knowledge and capability to perform the validation of a PBN flight procedure
- Capability to provide tailor-made support during the design or validation phase of the Instrument Flight Procedure
- Knowledge of the applicable validation standards ICAO Doc 9906 Volume 5/6
- EASA qualified Flight Validation Pilots
- Ability to perform validations for all types of PBN approach: RNP using conventional or GNSS sensors, LPV, LNAV/VNAV or LNAV approaches, APV BaroNAV, SBAS or RNP AR procedures
- A Cessna Citation II (C550) research aircraft, equipped with the Aerodata© Flight Inspection and Validation System
- Capabilities to evaluate New Routes, or (SID, STAR, Enroute) Route Segments for ANSPs
- Experience with ICAO PANS-OPS criteria and compliance aspects (ICAO Doc 8168-OPS/611, Procedures for Air Navigation Services-Aircraft Operations).
- An experienced team of airline- and research pilots, flight inspectors and planners
- Experience with efficient data gathering, data-analysis and data reporting
- Quality assurance and quality control processes executed under ISO 9001
Track record
NLR has performed PBN Flight Procedure design, safety studies and/or validations for the following airports:
- Teuge [EHTE], RNAV-LPV; design and safety case
- Groningen [EHGG], RNAV-LPV; design and safety case. Separate RNAV-LPV test flight performed
- Twente [EHTW], VFR arrivals with prescribed tracks; validation flight
- Schiphol Amsterdam [EHAM], simulator and flight validations of RNP approches
- Rotterdam The Hague [EHRD], simulator and flight validation of RNP approaches and SIDs
- Maastricht [EHBK], RNAV-LPV; pre-validation flight
- Albania, Kükes [LAKU] simulator and flight validation of RNP approach followed by circling
- Switzerland-Bern; Insel helicopter RNAV 084 procedure; safety case.
