Brave new world

Precision navigation comes of age

The pursuit of flight safety in commercial aviation is an ongoing task. Airlines and regulators alike continually seek to enhance their safety performance through all manner of rules, systems and burgeoning technology.

So what if the opportunity arose to make the critical approach phase up to eight times safer for 100 per cent of fare paying passengers within Australia? It is not fantasy, but the latest stunning development in the world of performance based navigation, or PBN.