High Altitude Program
As part of the Airspace management program, the High Altitude Airspace management program’s focus is to develop and implement fundamental changes to the route structure and operating methods in the high altitude turbojet cruise environment. Area Navigation (RNAV), point-to-point navigation and Required Navigational Performance (RNP will incrementally replace the higher altitudes of the present jet-route structure. The redesign activities are founded on industry/government recommended concepts from RTCA Select Committee 192 (SC192). The goal is to provide more freedom to properly equipped users and to achieve the economic benefits of flying user selected non-restrictive routings.
The redesign implementation will be done in phases and will progress based on customer equipage and technological advancement in ground based Air Traffic Control systems.
