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Old February 20th 05, 02:12 PM
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Scott Moore wrote:
Bob Gardner wrote:
http://www.avweb.com/newswire/10_18a.../187168-1.html

This will link you to an article that describe LAAS as being

delayed for
quite a while. Don't hold your breath.

Bob Gardner


The principle problem with LAAS is that the government has a schedule

to replace
ALL of the GPS sats with higher precision versions. I.e., the

precision of GPS
is going up, without any particular new infrastructure going into

place on
the ground or in the air.


Actually, a principle problem with LAAS is that the funding was
seriously scaled back.

The CAT I portion of the program was still in the R&D phase, as they
were working the issues (problems with interference/iono, i believe,
were still not resolved).

Which means that by the time any LAAS program got
on its feet, standard GPS, and presumably WAAS, might well offer the

same
capability.

--
Samiam is Scott A. Moore


I'd be sufficiently impressed if WAAS could provide CAT III, even with
dual-frequency, denser network of ground reference stations, algorithm
tweakage etc.

Regards,
Jon