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Ivan Millington
Sent: Thursday, 5 December 2013 6:20 PM
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Subject: [SCGC Members] No Room For Error : Implementing RNP in Queenstown N Z
Hi All,
Some inspiring video to watch....................
<http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7mxmFCw-Dig#t=31>http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7mxmFCw-Dig#t=31
A pilot landing at the inland airport of Queenstown, New Zealand,
recently put a GoPro camera in his cockpit, recorded in stunning HD
the last minutes of his flight, and posted it on YouTube. The
video, which has since gone viral, shows the plane skirting sunlit
mountain peaks and forbidding valleys, and piercing a thick blanket
of clouds above the runway.
The landing would be all but impossible if the pilot were not
relying on a digital GPS-based navigation system, called Required
Navigation Performance (RNP), first designed by Alaska Airlines
pilot Steve Fulton and developed by GE Aviation. Fulton, who now
works for GE Aviation, knows Queenstown well. He served as the test
director and rode in the jump seat with Qantas crews when GE rolled
out the system at the airport in 2004. Fulton said that flying in
the mountains, and the nerve-wracking night landings in Alaska that
gave him the inspiration for RNP.
What would happen on a day like this before RNP?
Queenstown-bound flights would have been diverted, frequently to
Invercargill, which is on the coast south of Queenstown. Passengers
would then have to board a bus for a 2 hour 15 minute ride back
north to Queenstown.
Regards
Ivan Millington
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