The European Satellite Services Provider (ESSP) has officially declared the start of the EGNOS Safety-of-Life Service as of March 2nd 2011 following EC authorisation to provide the service. The EGNOS Safety-of-Life (SoL) Service consists of signals for timing and positioning intended for most transport applications – especially in the domain of aviation- where lives could be… Continue reading EGNOS Safety of Life Service Available Since Yesterday
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EGNOS is here now – should you care?
Few other new aviation systems have generated as much controversy and opposition from the airspace user community as EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service. Like the US Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), EGNOS enables precision approach procedures to be implemented using only space-based signals. As such, it is one possible future replacement of ILS.… Continue reading EGNOS is here now – should you care?