Palo Alto Airport (PAO)
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
7:00pm
This seminar reviews WAAS navigation with principally an IFR focus.
It looks first at the WAAS system components, its satellites and ground stations. Then it compares non-WAAS-aided GPS (basic GPS) to GPS enhanced by WAAS. We review area navigation terminology, including the concepts of required navigation performance (RNP), waypoints, and course sensitivity levels.
WAAS improves both the accuracy and integrity of basic GPS. We define these concepts and compare the implementation under the old and new systems.
The core of the seminar is an in-depth understanding of RNAV approaches under WAAS. We review the design of RNAV approach charts, the NOTAM system, selection of alternate airports, minimums charting, and features peculiar to RNAV charts. We describe how course sensitivity changes throughout the approach and how that is communicated to the pilot.
Finally, we review actual RNAV approaches in the Bay Area and point out some of their idiosyncrasies, and how the IFR pilot can learn to generalize those characteristics to approaches elsewhere.
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This seminar qualifies for 1 credit for Basic Knowledge 3.
On Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 7:00pm.
Brian Eliot, CFI-I
Scott Stauter, CFI-I
West Valley Flying Club
Palo Alto Airport
1901 Embarcadero Road
Suite 100
Palo Alto, CA 94303
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