lnstrument Flight Procedures Services

Instrument flight procedures directly support the business performance of airports, aircraft operators and air navigation service providers. The skyguide instrument flight procedures office with its highly qualified PANS-OPS experts and project managers are ready to develop and implement safe, efficient and innovative flight procedures in complex airspace and terrain environment. Using the ICAO Performance Based Navigation (PBN) concept, the accessibility of airports and flight operations reliability can be improved and the environmental impact reduced. Rotorcraft operations are now benefiting from instrument flight procedures services too.
The instrument flight procedures and CNS services includes:

• Instrument Flight Procedure design according to ICAO Doc 8168 PANS-OPS
  and ICAO Doc 9613 Performance Based Navigation Manual
• Management or support of project to implement new or revised procedures
• Feasibility studies
• RNAV procedures developed according to the ICAO PBN Manual including RNP APCH to LNAV, LNAV/VNAV, LPV / RNP AR APCH / GBAS / Helicopter Point-in Space
• Development of Minimum Vectoring Altitude (MVA) Charts
• Support to airline operations for contingency flight procedure calculation according to EU-OPS
• Performance simulation of GNSS receivers with signal generator
• GNSS signal interference monitoring and detection (quality of service)

Further informations:

• Factsheet
• Movie: GNSS cloudingbreaking