No Room For Error: Pilot and Innovator Steve Fulton Talks about the "Alarm and Frustration" That Gave Birth to a Revolution in Aircraft Navigation
No Room For Error: Pilot and Innovator Steve Fulton Talks about the "Alarm and Frustration" That Gave Birth to a Revolution in Aircraft Navigation
The landing would be all but impossible if the pilot were not relying on a digital GPS-based navigation system, called Required Navigation Performance (RNP), first designed by Alaska Airlines pilot Steve Fulton and developed by GE Aviation. Fulton, who now works for GE Aviation, knows Queenstown well. He served as the test director and rode in the jump seat with Qantas crews when GE rolled out the system at the airport in 2004.