A short video about PBN, mainly for the European IFR pilot
If you benefitted from this video, there are others to try:
The other five videos in this series are:
Basic Instrument Flying • Basic Instrument Flying
Tracking • Tracking in GA Aircraft
Holding • Holding in GA Aircraft
Approaches • How to fly IFR final a...
Autopilots • Autopilots in Light GA...
If you fly under IFR in Europe, you might also like my recorded talk "Let's get real" • Let's Get Real - GA IF...
There are quite a few acronyms in this video. Here is a list and brief explanation of most of them:
ADF Automatic Direction Finder - the onboard receiver of NDB signals
AIRAC Aeronautical Information Regulation And Control - the monthly update system for navigation data
APR Approach Mode - the original RNP approach, now called LNAV
Baro-VNAV Barometric Vertical Navigation - the use of barometry to synthesise and display a glidepath
BeiDou The Chinese GNSS system
CDI Course Deviation Indicator - shows a left-right indicator on the screen, in an HSI or OBS instrument. Also the button to select what information - VOR/Localiser or GPS is shown by the CDI indicator.
DME Distance Measurement Equipment
EFATO Engine Failure After Take-Off
EGNOS European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service - the European SBAS
FPL Flightplan
FSD Full Scale Deflection
G1000 Garmin integrated flight management system
G175 Garmin GNSS navigator
Galileo European GNSS
GLONASS Russian GNSS
GNS430 Early Garmin navigator without SBAS capability
GNS430W Obsolescent Garmin navigator with SBAS capability
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
GPS US GNSS
GPSS Aircraft steering based on GNSS Navigator guidance
GTN Modern Garmin Navigator
IAF Initial Approach Fix - the start of an instrument procedure.
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation - Administers and governs Civil Aviation Internationally
IFD Modern Avidyne Navigator
ILS Instrument Landing System
INS Inertial Navigation System
INTEG Integrity warning
IRU Intertial Reference Unit
ISA International Standard Atmosphere
L/VNAV Annunciation of LNAV/VNAV
LNAV Approach providing lateral guidance only
LNAV/VNAV Approach providing certified vertical guidance in addition to LNAV
LNAV+V Approach providing uncertified advisory vertical guidance in addition to LNAV
LOI Loss of Integrity
LPV Approach providing ILS precision
MSG Message
NDB Non-Directional Beacon - a conventional Radio Beacon
Overlay Conventional procedure coded into GNSS navigator. Not approved in Europe.
PBN Performance Based Navigation
RAIM Receiver autonomous integrity monitoring - Checks GNSS integrity with no external support
RIMS EGNOS Ranging and Integrity Monitoring Stations
RNAV Area Navigation
RNP Required Navigational Performance - RNAV with fault awareness and reporting
RNP AR Approach which can only be flown with special authorisation
Roll Steering Aircraft steering based on GNSS Navigator guidance
RVR Runway Visual Range
SBAS Satellite-based Augmentation System
SID Standard Instrument Departure
STAR Standard Arrival Procedure
SUSP Suspend Mode
VOR VHF Omnidirectional Range - a conventional Radio Beacon
WAAS US SBAS
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