Flight Technical Error for Category B Non-Precision Approaches and MissedApproaches Using Non-Differential GPS for Course Guidance

摘要

The report documents and discusses the performance of twelve General Aviation Pilots who used Non-Differential Global Positioning System (GPS) in a Beechcraft Baron to fly 93 Category B approaches defined by GPS waypoints. The research reported here was part of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) GPS Overlay Project and provided the data required by the Agency to implement Phase I of the GPS satellite Operational Plan for Category B non-precision approaches. The data collection and analysis procedures described herein were developed with and approved by the FAA's Satellite Operations Implementation Team. It should be noted, however, that additional work would be required to prepare the data for use in the development of GPS TERPS.