"Peter Clark" wrote in message
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 06:27:08 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote:


I guess all I'm essentially asking is, "Can't you just do airways on the
VOR?" like they always did?

Can't we use NDB and A-N ranges like they used to?

Not for airways, and the topic is AIRWAYS.


Sure, you can use NAV1 and fly VOR and flip-flops to identify
intersections, but when there should be a perfectly good way to do it
with the automation available there's no reason to do it the hard way.

Using your previous analogy, why not add ADF/DNB navigiation to GPS as well?

Sure, they're dying; so, too, will airways. Why add functionality to a GPS
that will be obsolete soon enough? Expecially when, as you put it, you can
use NAV1 and flip-flops? That's already in most GPS systems with built in
COM/NAVs.

It's a trivial amount of additional code for the 430/530 series - the
G1000 is basically a headless 430. It's Garmin's "nobody does
airways" attitude that's preventing it.

I notice that (most? All?) the other GPS manufacturers aren't adding airways
either.