UK investigators have suggested that pilots may be losing currency with non-precision approaches, as they become less common, after probing an incident involving a Ukrainian Antonov An-26 at ...

On February 27, 2024, A Delta Air LinesAirbus A330-200 made what would turn out to be an emergency landing at night on an unilluminated runway at Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR). The jet ...

A type of non-precision instrument approach composed of a series of step-down altitudes, informally known as “dive and drive,” remains a point of contention between the FAA and NTSB following the ...

Within the next 12 months, the USA will certificate the use of integrated area navigation systems (RNAV) as a normal means of en-route and terminal precision navigation, including final approaches.

There is something strangely prehistoric about the way many of us continue to fly what we grew up calling a “non-precision” instrument approach. After flying across continents and oceans with ...