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Landing at Mopa!

Cruising Heights

September 2022

Goa's ready to inaugurate the "Today, we have completed the international airport at Mopa completed a Required Navigation Performance (RNP) with the landing and take-off of the first commercial aircraft from its runway. Once operational, it will be the second international airport in Goa after the one in Dabolim.

An Airbus A320 aircraft from Indigo Airlines tested and validated RNP at Mopa.

"Today, we have completed the Required Navigation Performance Procedure at the upcoming New Goa International Airport. RNP approach ensures integrity and accuracy and helps an aircraft follow specific paths using board equipment. This procedure not only offers safety benefits using it's precision and accuracy, but it also enhances operational efficiency by minimising multiple step-downs, and inaccurate circling approaches etc," said the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Goa GMR International Airport, RV Seshan in a news release

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