I. Introduction
- GPS Basics
- System Description and Performance
- Differential GPS
- GPS Receiver Classification
2. Approval Process
- Approval Flow Diagam
- Initial Vs. Follow-on Approval
- VFR, IFR, Non-precision Approaches
- Multisensor GPS Receivers
- Special Use - Not for Navigation
- Portable GPS Receivers
- Area of Operations
- Primary Vs Supplemental Means
of Navigation
- Differential GPS for Special Use
- Special Category I Instrument
Approaches
3. Airworthiness Approval
- Required Proposal Documents
- Determining Method of Approval
- Approval Flow Diagram
- Approval Via TC or STC
- Field Approval
- Conformity Inspection
- Field Airworthiness Approval
- Continuing GPS Airworthiness
4. Operations Approval
& Validation
- General Operations Requirements
- Proposal Documents/Validation Test Plan
- Issuing Operations Approval
- Operations Manuals,
Procedures, MEL
- Continuing GPS Operations Evaluation
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Tables
- IFR GPS Equipment Classification
from TSO-C129
- GPS and DGPS Uses, Required
Equipment and Approval
- General Process for Approval
- Determine Method of Approval
- En Route Authorization, Class I Nav
- En Route Authorization, Class II Nav
- Primary Means Class II Nav
- Non Precision Approach Procedures
Checklists
- Required Documents, Analysis
- Conformity Inspection
- Operation Requirements
- Detailed Analysis
- Demonstraion/Validation Test
References
- FAA Orders, Advisory Circulars, Notices, Regulations relating to
GPS airworthiness and operations
- Acronyms & Abbreviations
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