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EGNOS Factsheet SoL

The EGNOS system provides the first pan-European Satellite Navigation Service for Safety of Life users, especially for aviation. It supports vertical guidance for landing procedures, improving safety. Since 2011 it has supported approaches with vertical guidance over Europe. This helps replace older horizontal-only approaches, reducing accidents. It is particularly useful for smaller aircraft and airports without existing precision systems. EGNOS is designed to work with other regional augmentation systems.

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EGNOS Factsheet SoL

The EGNOS system provides the first pan-European Satellite Navigation Service for Safety of Life users, especially for aviation. It supports vertical guidance for landing procedures, improving safety. Since 2011 it has supported approaches with vertical guidance over Europe. This helps replace older horizontal-only approaches, reducing accidents. It is particularly useful for smaller aircraft and airports without existing precision systems. EGNOS is designed to work with other regional augmentation systems.

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Status: 26.02.

2013






Safety of Life for aviation

The first pan-European Satellite Navigation Service for Safety of Life users

The EGNOS Safety of Life service is dedicated to GNSS users with the most demanding safety
requirements. Its introduction will support the International Civil Aviation objectives to provide
airspace users with a vertical guidance capability (APV) for any landing procedure.

Since the Safety of Life Service declaration in March 2011, EGNOS signals can support vertical
guidance over a service area within the European airspace. This service contributes to a global
initiative targeting to replace the existing conventional Non-Precision Approach (NPA) landing
procedures based on horizontal guidance only. One of the major aims is to improve safety while
reducing Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) type accidents, which are more likely to occur in the
absence of vertical guidance. This initiative applies to regional and domestic airports having no
Instrument Landing System (ILS) infrastructure, and in backup of ILS over the main airports, to
continue providing vertical guidance in all operational conditions, when the ILS is in maintenance
or out of service.

It will be particularly useful in the short term for corporate and business aviation, general aviation
and helicopters. Such aircraft are not usually equipped with vertical landing capabilities such as
barometric guidance, or prefer a vertical guidance capability of better quality, as provided by
EGNOS. In the longer term, it is expected to become the main APV navigation solution for all
categories of aircraft.

The EGNOS system has been designed to be fully interoperable with the equivalent North American
WAAS and Japanese MSAS regional augmentation systems.



General information about European Global Navigation Satellite Systems
www.satellite-navigation.eu
www.esa.int/nav
ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/satnav/egnos
egnos-portal.eu
www.gsa.europa.eu
www.essp-sas.eu

For further information:
ESA Media Relations Office
Tel: +33 1 53 69 71 55
Email: media@esa.int



Fact and figures

Main EGNOS beneficiaries:

Aircraft with no vertical guidance capability (helicopters, regional airlines, business
jets, general aviation),
Airports with no ILS infrastructure (small airfields, helipads).

EGNOS coverage area (Dec. 2012)


EGNOS Vertical Guidance performance

Service Performance Level APV-I
Accuracy (95%) Lateral 16 m
Vertical 20 m
Integrity 1-210
-7
in any 150 s
TTA 10 s
1

Horizontal AL 40 m
Vertical AL 50 m
Continuity 110
-4
to

510
-4
in
any 15 s
Avail ability Global N/A
Local 0.99



1
The actual Time to Alarmof the EGNOS system is only 6s, an enhanced performance designed as an EGNOS built-in capability to prepare for more
demanding aviation requirements in the future (e.g. Localiser Performance with Vertical Guidance LPV-200).

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