An Optimized Profile Descent is a smooth way of landing planes with their engines close to idle. The landing style is less noisy, saves fuel, and reduces emissions. The Federal Aviation Administration ...

FAA is now allowing three parallel “optimized profile descents” into the three major airports that serve the Washington, D.C. area, initiating an airspace modification the agency said should save ...

The optimized profile descents now available at 64 U.S. airports reduce aircraft fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Optimized profile descents eliminate stair-step procedures, in which ...

The air traffic routes coming in and going out of Washington, D.C.-area airports. (Credit: FAA) Parts of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Next Generation Air Transportation System are… ...

Eleven more U.S. airports plan to adopt a new way of landing planes that reduces both emissions and noise — all by having incoming planes turn off their engines and glide down to the tarmac like a ...