Comments on: The future of radio navigation in the U.S. https://lahso.megginson.com/2006/02/25/the-future-of-radio-navigation-in-the-us/ Flying a small plane. Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:57:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: david https://lahso.megginson.com/2006/02/25/the-future-of-radio-navigation-in-the-us/#comment-307 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:57:12 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/archives/2006/02/25/the-future-of-radio-navigation-in-the-us/#comment-307 Note that they’re merely thinning out the VOR and ILS networks, not eliminating them — you’ll have a smaller choice of alternates available, but larger airports (however that’s defined) will still have ILS, and there will still be a skeleton network of VORs.

Maybe they’re also hoping that the Galileo network will be available as a satnav alternative to GPS by then.

]]> By: Paul https://lahso.megginson.com/2006/02/25/the-future-of-radio-navigation-in-the-us/#comment-306 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:01:55 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/archives/2006/02/25/the-future-of-radio-navigation-in-the-us/#comment-306 How are you going to have a non GPS approach at an alternate airport if the FAA decommissions the ILS and VOR system? Is it suddenly going to get more reliable? … GPS RAIM UNAVBL.

–paul

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