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No deal will mean no LPV approaches
21st December 2020 11:55 Europe/London
LPV approaches will be unavailable in the UK if the government does not manage to negotiate access to EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) when the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.
LPV – Localiser Performance with Vertical Guidance – approaches give lower minima than other types of GPS-based approaches because of the added precision.
The situation has come about as a result of the UK leaving the EU and not participating in EU programmes such as EGNOS. EGNOS provides the Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) signal that enables LPV approaches, with their reduced minima, to be flown.