Abstract
: Over the past 7 years, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been actively involved in the development of policies, methods, and procedures for the implementation of GPS and related space-based technologies being introduced into the National Airspace System (NAS). Satellite navigation services require the implementation of new technologies in the FAA flight inspection fleet. These technologies include passive monitoring, nonprecision approach, Special Category I (SCAT-I), the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), and the Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS). This paper describes the methods and policies being used by the FAA to meet these requirements. System-level descriptions of the equipment involved in the commissioning and periodic inspection of GPS-based instrument approach procedures are provided. The current automated Flight Inspection System (FIS) used aboard FAA aircraft is described, along with the portable GPS Flight Inspection System (GFIS) unit for use on helicopters or non-FIS fixed-wing aircraft.
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