Federal Aviation Administration What’s New In Instrument Flight Procedures Jerry Lebar, Eastern Flight Procedures Office March 3, 2010 Hershey Airports Conference

Federal Aviation Administration 2 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 Overview Introduction –AeroNav Services –What We Do Getting an Instrument Flight Procedure –Preliminary Actions/Requirements/Request –Timeline LPV Approach RNP Approach Approach Cancellation Program

Federal Aviation Administration 3 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 AeroNav Services

Federal Aviation Administration 4 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 National Flight Procedures Office (NFPO) in OKC and 3 Regional Flight Procedures Offices (FPO) (ATL, SEA, and DFW) Design and develop instrument flight procedures Flight Inspection Operations Office in OKC and 6 field offices (ATL, ACY, BTL, OKC, SAC & ANC) Operate and maintain a fleet of flight inspection aircraft for airborne evaluation National Aeronautical Charting Office (NACO) Publish aeronautical charts and digital products for aviation around the world

Federal Aviation Administration 5 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 How to request an IAP Requests can be received from anyone. Requests from ATC should be coordinated through the OSG. The request can be made via the internet at “avn.faa.gov” or through written request to our office.

Federal Aviation Administration 6 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 Considerations for Getting an Instrument Flight Procedure Costs/Benefits/Traffic Count/Safety Airport Design/Aircraft Types Approach Types/Minimums Surrounding Terrain/Obstacles Construction plans Facility availability/restrictions

Federal Aviation Administration 7 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 Eastern Flight Procedures Office

Federal Aviation Administration 8 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 Points of Contact

Federal Aviation Administration 9 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 Instrument Flight Procedure Problem Areas Data Issues –Conflicting Runway Data based on new surveys/NFDD –Untimely Updates (facility ID, airport ID/name) Timely Obstacle Data –Survey complete and load data, tree removal –Do you have the proper survey -- VG or NVG Late notification of project commissioning dates Last minute design requests

Federal Aviation Administration 10 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 Regional Airspace and Procedures Team (RAPT) Responsibilities for Flight Procedures FAA’s single point of contact for requests of flight procedures Processing Requests (WEB site) Coordinating Prioritizing Evaluating Responding Tracking

Federal Aviation Administration 11 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 RAPT Priorities Priority 1 - Safety, anything to correct a known safety deficiency Priority 2 - Newly installed or relocated NAVAIDs or airport runway addition/change Priority 3 - Procedures which test or implement an FAA initiative Priority 4 - Procedures at airports with no existing IFR approach Priority 5 - Procedures providing a reduction in minima Priority 6 - Procedures which eliminate the requirement for a waiver or NOTAM Priority 7 - Procedures providing flow improvement Priority 8 - Procedures providing other benefits, new criteria compliance Priority 9 - Public use procedures not included in 1 through 8 Priority 10 - Special and private procedures not providing benefits of 1 thru 8

Federal Aviation Administration 12 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 Timeline for Instrument Procedures Establish Pub Date: –Production Cycle (174 days). Full capacity thru 05/31/2012 (2,600 pending tasks between now and then) Example Flow based on Sept 23, 2010 pub date: – Feb 2010: FPO should have all data for their review –4/2/10: FPO must fwd project to NFPO –5/17/10: NFPO must fwd project to QC (45 days) –6/16/10: QC fwd to FC for scheduling (30 days) –7/24/10: SAT FC must be posted. (38 days) –7/27/10: NFPO must fwd pkg NACO/NFDC (3 Days) –9/23/10: Procedure published (56 day TPP cycle)

Federal Aviation Administration 13 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 An LPV is a satellite based Approach procedure with vertical guidance. An LPV can provide minimums as low as CAT I ILS (w/ approach lights and appropriate infrastructure). An LPV Approach requires a “VG” survey. An LPV must have a clear GQS. Missed approach needs to go straight ahead initially (until implemented) What is an LPV?

Federal Aviation Administration 14 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 What is an RNP ? An RNP is a satellite based Approach procedure with vertical guidance that includes onboard performance monitoring and alerting capability. Required Navigation Performance has different widths available (RNP 1.0, RNP 0.3, RNP 0.2, RNP 0.11) Radius-to-fix turns (RF) commonly used to reduce flight distances and avoid airspace/obstacles. (Not all RNP equipped aircraft have RF capability) Most airlines now equipped and all Commercial and Gulfstreams coming from factory with RNP. Training and certification are still required.

Federal Aviation Administration 15 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 Instrument Approach Procedure (IAP) Cancellation Program Cancellation Program was developed to identify those procedures which can be eliminated with little or no impact. The goal has been a 2 to 1 ratio, 1 cancellation for every two procedures added to the NAS Over 1,000 Procedure have been Cancelled in the last three years NDB IAPs VOR/DME RNAV procedures VOR – Seldom used approaches

Federal Aviation Administration 16 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 Benefits of Cancellation Program Transition to Satellite based navigation; RNP, VNAV, LPV procedures provides lower minimums than the procedures they typically replace (ie: NDB; VOR) Less Cost to Technical Operations Reduced Airspace Complexity Reduced Flight Inspection Operational Costs

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Federal Aviation Administration 18 Instrument Flight Procedures Wednesday March 3, 2010 Eastern Flight Procedures Office Questions ?????