FAA's Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) Initial Results of Cross-Country Flight Test

Victor Wullschleger, Ruben Velez, Rob Butler, Adrio Toucer, Mark Dimeo, Robert Loh

Abstract:	The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has initiated a program to implement a Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) to provide integrity, accuracy, and availability for all phases of flight from oceanic, en- route, non-precision and precision approaches. Testing of the components of the WAAS concepts began in early 1993, and will continue throughout the acquisition and implementation of the WAAS. This paper will cover initial flight test results from simultaneous tests conducted at the FAA Technical Center and Crows Landing Naval Auxiliary Landing Field. These tests demonstrate for the first time that a single WAAS signal can be used to perform Category I precision approaches at airports on different coasts of the U.S.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 7th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1994) September 20 - 23, 1994 Salt Palace Convention Center Salt Lake City, UT
Pages:	1527 - 1535
Cite this article:	Wullschleger, Victor, Velez, Ruben, Butler, Rob, Toucer, Adrio, Dimeo, Mark, Loh, Robert, "FAA's Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) Initial Results of Cross-Country Flight Test," Proceedings of the 7th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1994), Salt Lake City, UT, September 1994, pp. 1527-1535.
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