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No Room For Error: Pilot and Innovator Steve Fulton Talks about the “Alarm and Frustration” That Gave Birth to a Revolution in Aircraft Navigation

June 14, 2015
A pilot  landing in Queenstown, the popular mountain resort in New Zealand, recently stuck a GoPro camera in his cockpit and recorded the last thrilling minutes of his flight. The video, which has since gone viral, shows the plane skirting jagged mountain peaks and piercing a thick blanket of clouds above the runway, before safely touching down.
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No Extra Time: "Highways in the Sky" are Helping Brazilian Airlines Navigate Crowded Skies in Busy Times

April 08, 2014

In just two months some 600,000 fans from 31 countries and 3 million local tourists will turn Brazil’s airports into buzzing beehives.

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Peak Performance: Data System Rules the Sky at 2-Mile High Airport

July 18, 2013

Some travelers landing at the Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport in China’s mountainous Sichuan province say their ears don’t pop. At 11,311 feet, Jiuzhai is the third highest airport in China, nestled among jagged, snow-capped peaks of the Min Shan mountain range.

Airports in this part of China used to be infamous for weather delays, cancellations and tortuous landing approaches. But that changed in 2011, when Jiuzhai rolled out a new GE aircraft navigation system called required navigation performance (RNP).

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