Naverus Will Supply China with RNP Availability Forecasts

Naverus has agreed to make China's Center of Aviation Safety Technology (CAST), the exclusive agent for licensing its RNP (required navigation performance) availability forecast service to Chinese airlines.

In China, as in other countries, regulations for RNP operations require operators to take into account the predicted level of navigation precision that will be achievable by the aircraft's avionics for each flight. Naverus' RNP availability forecast translates information about GPS signal conditions, aircraft characteristics and local terrain, to produce regular predictions of an aircraft's navigation system performance that will be available on any given day.

Naverus distributes the forecast several times daily - as frequently as every two hours - to dispatch departments at airlines worldwide.

CAST will coordinate the enrollment and licensing of the forecast for Chinese airlines that wish to begin operations using RNP RNAV (area navigation) procedures.

Shi Dinghao, CAST's director general, said "China is moving ahead with RNP, and this service is important to all of our airlines as they begin to implement this technology."

CAST is the major R & D institute of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC). 04-07-2006.

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