The EUROCONTROL Performance Based Navigation course, introduces the PBN concept which was initially released in 2008. The course discusses the evolution of the concept and explains the principles of PBN. The course then focuses on the three components of PBN: the Navigation Application, Navigation Specifications and the Navigation Infrastructure. Once these tenets are understood, the course considers how to implement PBN and follows the principles laid out in the European Airspace Concept Handbook for PBN Implementation. This document, to be re-released as Edition 4 in 2020, provides step-by-step guidance to support a successful PBN airspace change. Specifically focused on the European area, the handbook provides States excellent guidance on implementation and this document builds upon ICAO’s Doc 9992.
Finally, the European Commission has published the PBN Implementing Regulation (EU 2018/1048) which runs in parallel with the Pilot Common Project Implementing Regulation (PCP IR); the latter came into force in July 2014.  Both the PBN rule and the PCP IR influence the future development of navigation applications within European airspace over the next decade and both rule and regulation address the ICAO General Assembly Resolution (37/11) on the requirement for approach procedures with vertical guidance (APV) for all instrument runway ends; this ICAO resolution originally called for by a completion date of 2016. Therefore, the course will review the  impact of the PBN IR and will discuss ATM Functionalities (AF) #1 and #3 of the PCP both of which have specific requirements on PBN functionality.