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.
Not 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.
Right? "The government" as a whole can't have it both ways. Eliminate older navigation systems because GPS is everywhere, AND run around jamming GPS.
Yes, 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.
Not 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.
MON 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...
"documented network of airports" is a poorly worded reference to MON airports as distinguished from MON navaids.