industry STEP ASIDE VOR PBN IS TAKING OVER B Y D A V I D H U G H E S , F A A N E X T G E N THE FAA IS URGING AIRCRAFT OPERATORS IN THE NAS TO SHIFT TO PBN 62 avionics news * january 2017 O U T R E A C H A N D D R E P O R T I N G uring the past 12 years, the Federal Aviation Administration has published thousands of Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) flight procedures, which have built the foundation for another major agency goal: Making PBN the primary form of air navigation in the National Airspace System. To help create a PBN-centric NAS, the FAA published the PBN NAS Navigation Strategy 2016, which is available online at http://tinyurl.com/gtayrum. "Past PBN strategies have focused on establishing various types of flight procedures in the NAS, but that is only one piece of the puzzle," said Joshua Gustin, FAA senior technical adviser for PBN implementation. "The key to this new strategy is to make PBN the primary means of air navigation in the NAS, in terminal and en route airspace by aligning all activities toward that goal."http://www.tinyurl.com/gtayrum