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Tuesday, July 30, 2019
We are pleased to announce the new Aviation Dashboard, available under the Aviation Portal section of the website. This brand new dashboard, designed in coordination with European Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs), is aimed to display EGNOS integrated information relevant to the Aviation community although it can be…
Monday, July 29, 2019
The Skyopener project, which is co-financed by the European GNSS Agency (GSA), aims to pave the way towards increased use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) in civil applications. The project has tested the benefits of multi-frequency GNSS and EGNOS in RPAS, revealing gains in terms of availability, accuracy and robustness.…
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
DAT LT is an airline established more than 15 years ago in Lithuania which nowadays provides a mix of services including scheduled flights, ACMI (charter and leasing) and cargo. Operating a fleet of x18 ATR turboprops of various sizes and generations (including the latest -600 variant), time has come for the company to…
Thursday, June 27, 2019
On 24-25 September 2019 at the ASI (Italian Space Agency) premises in Rome, the 9th EGNOS Annual Workshop aims at bringing together users, industry and stakeholders to exchange impressions on how the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) is performing. This year we will meet in Rome, September 24-25. This…
Thursday, June 13, 2019
AirBaltic’s Senior Vice President for Flight Operations Pauls Cālītis talks about the E-GEN project, EGNOS implementation and plans for the future. Can you tell me a little about the E-GEN project and the ’green flying’ concept? What are its objectives? At airBaltic, the green flying concept is all about utilising the…
Monday, May 20, 2019
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) together with air traffic management organisation EUROCONTROL jointly organised the 16th meeting of the RNP Approach Implementation Support Group (RAISG) together with the Aviation Grants programme workshop at the GSA’s Prague headquarters. The two-day meeting featured an interesting blend of…
Tuesday, May 07, 2019
A new version of the training package covering the theoretical knowledge syllabus for RNP APCH to LPV minima is available in the Training Material section.   The new version incorporates the latest changes introduced by EU regulations, and can be used by Approved Training Organisations (ATOs) to develop Theoretical knowledge on RNP APCH…
Thursday, April 11, 2019
EGNOS showed once again its robust design and its capability to cope with external events, in this case in front of the GPS Week Rollover event. On Saturday 6 April 2019, at 23:59:42 UTC, the GPS Week counter reset to 0 for the second time during its lifetime with a high risk of undesired effects in any system making use of…
Thursday, April 04, 2019
The opening plenary of the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, on March 25, provided an opportunity for representatives from the GNSS industry in Europe and around the world to look back on what has been achieved in the year since the last summit, and to look to the future, where the challenge is to maintain current high levels of…
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
The new version of the Service Definition Document (SDD) for the EGNOS Safety of Life service has been published today! The EGNOS Safety of Life service (SoL) supports safety-critical operations in the aviation domain such as Approaches with Vertical Guidance (APV-I) and Category I precision approaches. The SoL service area…