In March 2012, Atlantic Airways, the flag carrier of the Faroe Islands, became the first European airline to use required navigation performance with authorization required (RNP AR) 0.1 procedures on a commercial flight.1
“At the time of landing — around 4 p.m. — the western Atlantic winds had spread a mass of low-level clouds above the channels and fjords of the Faroe Islands. We could only see the spines of the mountains,” said Andrea Artoni, an aeronautical journalist, aviation consultant and a former air traffic controller who was aboard the delivery flight of the Atlantic Airways Airbus A319. The new aircraft was equipped with the RNP navigation system.
“The pilots consulted the approach chart. Tension was palpable. The weather conditions forced the pilots to use, starting from the very first flight, the special instrument approach procedure which determined the decision of the airline to purchase exactly that aircraft with exactly that equipage,” said Art…
