Localizer performance with vertical guidance: Difference between revisions

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LPV is designed to provide 16 metre horizontal accuracy and 20 metres vertical accuracy 95 percent of the time. Actual performance has exceeded these levels. WAAS has never been observed to have a vertical error greater than 12 metres in its operational history.{{Citation needed|date=June 2013}}

As of January 15, 2009 the Federal Aviation Administration has published 1,445 LPV approaches at 793 airports. This is greater than the number of published Category I ILS procedures.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}

As of April 3, 2014, there are 3,402 Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance (LPV) approach procedures serving 1675 airports.<ref>[http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/service_units/techops/navservices/gnss/approaches]</ref>

==See also==