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Another thing to add to all this is FAA has been steadily removing from service non-GPS navigation aids.
by dpe82 1mo ago
Another thing to add to all this is FAA has been steadily removing from service non-GPS navigation aids.
- phkahler 1mo agoRight? "The government" as a whole can't have it both ways. Eliminate older navigation systems because GPS is everywhere, AND run around jamming GPS.
- cmurf 1mo agoYes, but… They are enhancing the navaids that remain. Greater range, and a documented network of airports serviced by ground based instrument approach procedures. The shrinkage of total number of navaids concerns me from a rural support perspective but less so as a pilot. What does concern me as a pilot is even the MON navaids are having maintenance issues resulting in outages.
- raviolo 1mo agoNot sure anything is enhancing. Approaches have… always been documented? What has greater range - VORs? I haven’t seen any. I think it’s reducing everything to MON that’s it.
- cmurf 1mo agoMON adds four new SSVs: VL and VH for VORs; DL and DH for DME. There's range changes in VOR, DME, and VORTAC. See AIM 1-1-8. NAVAID Service Volumes https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html/chap1_section_1.html https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html... "documented network of airports" is a poorly worded reference to MON airports as distinguished from MON navaids.
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- dpe82 1mo ago> even the MON navaids are having maintenance issues resulting in outages Which is exactly why we previously had such a dense network: to provide redundancy in the face of inevitable outages.