Improvements in aircraft navigation performance provide an opportunity to increase efficiency and flexibility. The Performance Based Navigation aviation portfolio addresses ways to leverage emerging technologies, such as Area Navigation and Required Navigation Performance, to improve access and flexibility for point-to-point operations.
Benefits
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Access
Provides an operating environment ensuring all airspace users have right of access to the air traffic management resources they need to meet their specific operational requirements, and the shared use of airspace by different users can be achieved safely. The global air traffic management system should ensure equity for all users that have access to a given airspace or service.
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Efficiency
Addresses the operational and economic cost-effectiveness of gate-to-gate flight operations from a single-flight perspective. In all phases of flight, airspace users want to depart and arrive at the times they select, and fly the trajectories they determine to be optimum.
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Flexibility
Ensures the ability of all airspace users to dynamically modify flight trajectories and adjust departure and arrival times, thereby permitting them to take advantage of operational opportunities as they occur.
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Predictability
The ability of airspace users and air traffic management service providers to deliver consistent and dependable levels of performance. Predictability is essential to users as they develop and operate their schedules.
Implemented Capabilities and Locations
NextGen Implementation Plan (PDF)
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Advanced and Efficient Required Navigation Performance (RNP)
- NAS-Wide Standard
Information as of November 30, 2017
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Area Navigation (RNAV) Global Positioning System (GPS) Approaches
- 3,857 LPV procedures serving 1,881 U.S. airports
- 3,739 LNAV/VNAV procedures serving 1,807 airports
- 6,206 LNAV procedures serving 2,815 airports
- 646 LP procedures serving 488 U.S. airports
Information as of September 30, 2017
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Area Navigation (RNAV) Standard Instrument Departures (SIDs) and Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STARs) at Single Site
- 29 Core Airports (ATL, BOS, BWI, CLT, DCA, DEN, DFW, EWR, FLL, HNL, IAD, IAH, JFK, LAS, LAX, LGA, MCO, MDW, MEM, MIA, MSP, ORD, PHL, PHX, SAN, SEA, SFO, SLC, TPA)
- 310 Non-Core Airports
Information as of September 30, 2017
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Equivalent Lateral Spacing Operation Standard (ELSO)
- Available NAS-wide
Information as of November 30, 2017
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Large-Scale Redesign of Airspace Leveraging Performance Based Navigation (PBN)
Information as of November 30, 2017
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Metroplex Performance Based Navigation (PBN) Procedures
- Atlanta Metroplex
- Charlotte Metroplex
- Houston Metroplex
- North Texas Metroplex
- Northern California Metroplex
- Southern California Metroplex
- Washington, DC Metroplex
Information as of November 30, 2017
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Optimized Profile Descents (OPDs)
- 20 Core Airports (ATL, BOS, BWI, CLT, DCA, DEN, DFW, HNL, IAD, IAH, LAS, MDW, MEM, MSP, ORD, PHX, SAN, SEA, SFO, SLC)
- 108 Non-Core Airports
OPD tracking and reporting was transferred to the PBN portfolio from the Improved Approaches and Low-Visibility Operations portfolio.
Information as of October 31, 2017
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Performance Based Navigation (PBN) Route Eligibility Check
- 2 ARTCCs (ZLC and ZSE)
Information as of November 30, 2017
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Required Navigation Performance (RNP) Authorization Required (AR) Approaches
- 25 Core Airports (ATL, BWI, CLT, DCA, DEN, DFW, EWR, FLL, HNL, IAD, IAH, JFK, LAX, LGA, MDW, MEM, MIA, MSP, ORD, PHL, PHX, SAN, SEA, SFO, TPA)
- 101 Non-Core Airports
Information as of October 12, 2017
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Transition to Performance Based Navigation (PBN) Routing for Cruise Operations
- 249 Routes NAS-wide
This count is the sum of the Q-Routes, T-Routes, and TK-Routes provided on the FAA Instrument Flight Procedures Inventory Summary.
Information as of August 17, 2017