![]() The other instrument procedures have significantly higher ceiling & visibility minimums, lack runway alignment, may position the aircraft closer to terrain, and have a challenging missed approach," Baur told Avionics International.įlying the approach in the TBM showed how much easier its descent angles and better avoidance of the terrain. "This approach has the lowest minimums of any published instrument procedure at Vail/Eagle County Airport. Using RNAV RNP, Baur and Hughes Aerospace have established a new approach procedure with a decision height altitude of 282 feet and a half a mile of visibility. Located 37 miles from Vail, the lone runway at Eagle County is surrounded by mountainous terrain with publicly available procedures that require pilots to use decision heights of more than 1,700 feet and three miles of visibility. The cockpit of the Hughes Aerospace TBM 850. In 2010 as the most famous example, Eagle was ranked as the world's eighth most extreme airport in a special feature broadcasted by The History Channel. Using the RNP and point-in-space landing capabilities of the aircraft's advanced navigation systems, Hughes was able to deploy a new RNP AR approach into Eagle County that went live earlier this year.Įquipped with one runway measuring 9,000 feet, the approach to land at Eagle County is challenging because the mountainous terrain and nearby airports that surrounds it making the missed approach procedure challenging for even the most skilled professional pilots. ![]() ![]() In August 2021, I participated in an inspection flight of a new approach procedure at one of the most challenging airports to land at in the U.S., Colorado's Eagle County (KEGE) with Hughes Aerospace CEO Chris Baur in a TBM 850 equipped with Garmin avionics. A view of the RNAV RNP approach developed by Hughes Aerospace into the runway at Eagle County Airport.
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