![]() by VOR if you are atĥ000 Ft AGL or above and … you should be within 100 NM of an airport that does Would be 586 working sites with this ultimate goal in mind:Īble to navigate by VOR anywhere in the Continental U.S. That calls for the decommissioning of 310 sites (13 VORs, 155 VOR/DMEs, and 142 Vortacs), 74 by 2020 and Alaska offers unique issues for pilots and “VOR MON” VOR Minimum Operational Network (The FAA’sĪre currently 896 VOR’s operating in the Continental US. I wasn’t “up to date” on the subject so I I frankly didn’t have a good answer for him. ![]() Response was, “But aren’t the VORs going away? One recent client had $15,000 to spend and he wanted to continue to flyĬonclusion was that he can fly his airplane light IFR, but he will have to do ![]() This is the I fly a 50-60K, VFR equipped airplane and now “I want to beĪble to fly light IFR safely … on a budget”. I think the conclusion that the FAA came to regarding this issue is surprisinglyĪdvise aircraft owners, mostly Legacy owners on the best way to spend theirĪll out and put in a Garmin stack” crowd. Governments only know two ways to respond to an issue to Over or Under respond, VOR/ILS systems back in 2011 and while I frequently like to suggest that GPS capability is a “weapon” in the U.S.Ī target to anyone hoping to minimize us.įAA took up this question and started looking seriously at the countries Heaven help us if we get involved in a conflict of some kind. We know of situations where the governmentĪppears to be responsible for GPS outages. Have said that a GPS problem is common in certain areas. Have lost GPS navigation capability in certain areas, we even hear pilots who The other side of the equation, let me ask this question … Don’t we need a back-up for GPS? We hear of occasional situations where pilots We now have more GPS approaches in the country than we do ILS approaches so who Reliability and features, what about ILS? As IFR GPS systems continue to improve in GPS rushed on to the General Aviation scene in the late 90’s, it wasn’t longĪfter that pilots started talking about the demise of the VOR system. Flying IFR the old way … without an IFR GPS
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