Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

"Sam Spade" wrote in message
news:rpI9g.176355$bm6.115303@fed1read04...

Not so. You are fixated on a fiction. If you tracked a Victor airway on
an instument rating ride with anything other than the *appropriate* VOR it
would be (or should be) a bust.



What do you base that statement on? Airways can be assigned even when the
VORs defining them are out of service as long as the aircraft is /E, /F, /G,
or /R.


Sure they can with an IFR certifed GPS. But, on a instrument rating
ride the examiner or inspector doing a proper check ride would avoid an
airway that cannot be flown with VOR equipment for the portion of the
check ride that involves testing the applicant's competency in flying a
VOR airway with VOR equipment.

Also, the rating ride can still be conducted in an aircraft without IFR
GPS equipment but it cannot be conducted in an aircraft without VOR
equipment.

I think you are confusing normal operations with a GPS equipped aircraft
with an instrument rating ride.