"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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Are there any? I can't think of a VOR which isn't somehow part of an
instrument approach. Even if not the primary navaid, then some
essential fix along the approach.

Well I can tell you that Phil Boyer was walking around the AOPA Fly-in last
year in June 2002 basically asking how AOPA is doing and what we would like
AOPA to do in advocating for us so I had a discussion with him pretty
similar to this thread and he told me personally that this is AOPA's
position -- or at least it was AOPA's position at that time.


Yes, absolutely. It's just a single-frequency receiver with a
computer attached to it. Computers are cheap. Given what I can buy a

I can buy a digital or analog clock or watch for under $10 just about
anywhere in the U.S.

When I bought a new clock for my airplane last year, the cheapest I could
find was $78 for analog or $400 for digital.

There is probably nothing more ubiquitous or interchangeable in an airplane
than a clock.

Given this, I do not have high hopes for an installed approach-certified IFR
GPS at any price remotely near economic sanity for GA trainers. If we
really do get to a point where an IFR approach GPS is a requirement for IFR
flight, I think the cost of obtaining an instrument rating in a rental
airplane will unfortunately go up considerably and the utility of the rental
fleet will go down considerably because I suspect a lot of flight schools
will decide it is not worth putting an IFR approach GPS into their whole
fleet but instead will convert the lower-end of their fleet into VFR-only
airplanes. That would indeed be a shame.



--
Richard Kaplan, CFII

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