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NPANewspaper Publishers Association
NPANumbering Plan Area (telephony, the so-called Area Code)
NPANon Performing Assets
NPANATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Phonetic Alphabet
NPANew People's Army (Philippines)
NPANouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (French political party)
NPANorwegian People's Aid
NPANon-Prosecution Agreement (crimes)
NPANutrition and Physical Activity (various organizations)
NPANotice of Proposed Amendment
NPANon-Precision Approach
NPANew Public Administration (concept)
NPANational Pigeon Association
NPANational Parking Association
NPANot Paying Attention
NPANational Production Authority (USA)
NPANational Partnership Agreement (various locations)
NPANational Ports Authority
NPANational Plan of Action for Children (various locations)
NPANationwide Programmatic Agreement (FCC)
NPANasopharyngeal Aspirate (medical procedure)
NPANational Protected Area
NPANursing Practice Act (various states)
NPANetwork Point of Attachment
NPANumber Portability Area
NPANetware Peripheral Architecture
NPANumbering Plan Area
NPANo Permanent Address
NPANotional Principal Amount
NPANulle Part Ailleurs
NPANon Partisan Association (political party)
NPANational Park Area (various locations)
NPANormal Pension Age
NPANew Product Announcement
NPANew Partnership Agreement (various organizations)
NPANational Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (US DHHS)
NPANational Pharmaceutical Association
NPANorthwest Perennial Alliance (nonprofit gardening organizations in Washington state)
NPANational Powersport Auctions (Poway, CA)
NPANew Product Approval
NPANetwork Professional Association (self-regulating, non-profit association of network computing professionals)
NPANational Particleboard Association (Gaithersburg, MD)
NPANorth Perry Airport (Hollywood, FL)
NPANational Pediculosis Association
NPANational Prescription Audit
NPANever Paint Again (UK)
NPANorthland Preparatory Academy (Flagstaff, AZ)
NPANational Personnel Associates (Grand Rapids, MI)
NPANational Planning Agency (various organizations)
NPANational Perinatal Association
NPANon-Public Assistance (various locations)
NPANeighborhood Planning Area (various locations)
NPANational Pasta Association (Washington, DC)
NPANotice of Proposed Assessment
NPANon-Profit Agency
NPANorthern Pipeline Agency (Canada)
NPANational Performing Arts (various locations)
NPANational Priority Area (various locations)
NPANo Political Affiliation
NPANew Partnership Approach
NPANotification of Personnel Action (US Army)
NPANational Policy Association
NPANo Police Action
NPANon Precision Approaches (aviation)
NPANational Pilots Association
NPANew Product Application
NPANippon Pulse America (Nippon Pulse Motor Co., Ltd.)
NPANuméro Postal d'Acheminement (French: Postal Code, Switzerland)
NPANetwork Provider Access
NPANational Paperbox Association
NPANorthern Prospectors Association (Canada)
NPANewspaper Preservation Actof 1970
NPANetwork Printing Alliance
NPANet Punting Average (football)
NPANew Pioneers Awards
NPANational Paralegal Association
NPANational Parenting Association
NPANordic Planetarium Association
NPANational Pathways Association
NPANanopyramid Array
NPANortheastern Pennsylvania Alliance (Pittston, PA)
NPANon-Partisan Alliance (Canada)
NPANet Pay Advice
NPANational Porn Association
NPANear Point of Accommodation (ophthalmology)
NPANetwork Planning Area
NPANantes Poker Association (Nantes, France)
NPANaval Air Station Pensacola, FL (ICAO Airport Code)
NPANational Patent Association
NPANuclear Physics Apparatus
NPANaso Pharyngeal Airway
NPANational Phreaks Association
NPANational Prostate Association
NPANetherlands Police Academy
NPANational Pharmacopoeia Authorities (WHO)
NPAPostal Affairs Section Publications (US Navy)
NPANetwork Programmers Association
NPANaval Procurement Account (US Navy)
NPANormal Production Allowance
NPANATO Participation Act of 1994
NPANurse Practitioner Alternatives, Inc.
NPANEPO-PA - North Eastern Probe Owners, Pennsylvania Chapter
NPANut Processors Association
NPANetwork Program Analysis
NPANetwork Project Area
NPANon Published Area
NPANorthwest Pharmacists Association
NPANone Portable Apparatus
NPANon Personal Account (banking)
NPANational Procrastinators Association
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References in periodicals archive
With the advent of GPS approaches in the 1990s and early 2000's, we had many more opportunities to practice and fly non-precision approaches. Today in the U.S., with WAAS (wide area augmentation system), the reduction of VORs and the near elimination of NDBs, there are fewer and fewer available non-precision approaches.
FINDING NON-PRECISION
The newer KLN94 (this is the model with color display and non-precision approach capability) is repaired on a time-and-materials basis (no exchanges) because the display is obsolete.
Used IFR GPS Systems: Garmin GNS Still Tops: But you'll pay top dollar for a good one. Consider the cost of installation kits, antennas and pricey factory service while striking a deal
Vertical Descent Angles (VDA) are published for most non-precision approaches. You should know that
THE QUIZ
The only place we did see the autopilot get behind was on a non-precision approach using the new airspeed-hold function.
Avidyne's DFC90: one smart autopilot: Avidyne's fully digital autopilot delivers on its claims of terrific performance and improved safety. But the cost-benefit equation won't work for everyone
Unfortunately, there is no approach-end cable to the active runway, and the weather had deteriorated to the point that it was below the non-precision approach minimums to the runway that favored the winds.
Monthly award winners
If a normal non-precision approach has a four-hundred-foot MDA, adding a thousand feet puts the bottom of the practice approach above the normal GA traffic pattern.
PARTY IN THE PATTERN
With the dive-and-drive profile of the day, the theory was that getting down early to the MDA on a non-precision approach and breaking out into VMC afforded greater opportunity to find the airport or runway and land on it.
Top five IFR mistakes: once you 're behind the airplane, getting back out in front can be a challenge. Good planning and cockpit management skills can save the day
On a non-precision approach to an MDA, you probably want the preselector set to the MDA.
ADVANCED AUTOPILOT USE
There's long been an argument about how to execute a non-precision approach (NPA) with a minimum descent altitude (MDA): Use a constant-angle descent or the so-called "dive and drive" method--a steeper descent to the MDA and leveling off, then looking for the airport.
Spin off ATC? New legislation would create an air traffic control system independent from the FAA
The GPS approach at Shoreham Airport will be the first approved RNAV Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) non-precision approach for general aviation in the UK, the CAA said.
UK's first non-precision GPS approach is announced
On a non-precision approach, we need to cross-check the altimeter constantly until very short final: far too many pilots have come up short of a runway in flatlight conditions, then professed they were well above terra firma.
You want ice with that? in addition to demanding we get through icing layers quickly, winter weather can force us to consider strategies we wouldn't use in summer
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