Richard Kaplan wrote:

Loran got a bad
name simply because its signal tends to degrade in active precipitation,
especially snow...

Actually, I think most of the blame can be laid to the state of the art in computers
when the LORANs were developed. Mine takes several minutes to adjust to a change in
course, and I have seen it report a steady decrease in distance to an airport for
quite some time after one has turned directly away. It would not be useful for
maintaining distance from a controlled field.

Maybe with a faster CPU, LORAN would get more respect.

George Patterson
If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said.