Performance Based Navigation (PBN)

This Performance Based Navigation (PBN) complies with EASA requirements and has to be completed by flight crew before commencing a flight in an airspace requiring basic-, and/or precision area navigation. The course covers a general knowledge of Area Navigation. RNAV/RNP (GNSS) Approaches are covered in a separate training available in our store. 

THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE SUBJECTS

• Theory of RNAV

• Limitations

• RNAV Path Terminator Concepts

• Fly-by and Fly-over Waypoints

• Flying the Procedure

• GNSS/GPS

• AHRS/IRS

• Function and Precision

• The implications for RNAV operations of System Malfunctions which are not RNAV related

• Pre-Flight Check

• Selection of Departure Route

• Display of the flight Plan

• Flying Standard Instrument Departures

• Engine Out Standard Departure Route (EOSID)

• Position Monitoring

• Minimum Flight Altitudes

• Transitions

• Route Data

• Flying the Standard Arrival Route (STAR)

• Flight Crew 

• Dispatch