PBN - RADIO NAVIGATION EASA 2022

According to ICAO PBN Manual, the airspace concept has been developed in order to satisfy the following strategic objectives: safety, capacity, efficiency, environment and access. This is to be achieved by enhancements in:

• Communications (COM)

• Navigation (NAV)

• Surveillance (SUR)

• Air Traffic Management (ATM)

List the factors used to define area navigation (RNAV) or required navigation performance (RNP) system performance requirements:

• accuracy, integrity, continuity, complexity

• accuracy, continuity

• accuracy, integrity

• accuracy, integrity, continuity

List all components of performance-based navigation (PBN):

• Navigation Specification and Navigation Application

• Navigational Regulation, Navigation Specification and Navigation Application

• Navigational Aid Infrastructure, Navigation Specification and Navigation Application

• Navigational Aid Infrastructure and Navigation Specification

What is true about performance-based navigation (PBN)?

• It is not sensor specific.

• It requires the development of sensor-specific procedures and routes.

• It is similar to conventional navigation; both require a ground-based infrastructure.

• It is based on navigation specifications which are sensor specific.

A PBN system cannot be based on:

• GPS

• NDB/DME

• DME/DME

• IRU

In the approach phases of flight, PBN accommodates:

• angular laterally guided operations.

• linear laterally guided operations.

• both linear and angular laterally guided operations.

• no laterally guided operations but only longitudinally guided operations.

In oceanic/remote, en-route, and terminal phases of flight. PBN is limited to:

• operations with angular lateral performance requirements and time constraints.

• linear and angular laterally guided operations.

• operations with linear lateral performance requirements and time constraints.

• ILS/MLS/GLS approach and landing operations.

Define performance-based navigation (PBN).

• A three-dimensional optimum flight path computed by the FMS with reference to aircraft data stored in its performance database and pilot-entered flight parameters.

• The selection of airway routings and instrument procedures according to the performance capabilities and rights specified in the licenses of the pilots.

• Area navigation based on performance requirements for aircraft operating along an ATS route, on an instrument approach procedure or in a designated airspace.

• A specified combination of ground- and satellite-based as well as inertial navigation equipment designed to ensure a performance which allows aircraft to be operated in certain airspaces or along ATS routes.

Which of the following are components of PBN?

• 1. The NAVAID infrastructure

• 2. Pilot training

• 3. The navigation specification

• 4. Integrity control

• 5. The navigation application

Which statement is true if you compare raw data with compute data?

• Sensor-based data is often referred to raw data. PBN is mainly based on such data.

• Conventional radio navigation is based on raw data like information from navigation aids and measured air data.

• PBN is based on computed data which is highly sensor specific.

• Raw data are based on computed data.