Big News -- WAAS GPS is Operational for IFR

More gibberish and sensless unfounded babble.



On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:22:38 -0700, "Tarver Engineering"
wrote:


"Richard Kaplan" wrote in message
news:669da89399b1403eaf276544232ee932@TeraNews. ..
This is big news --- WAAS GPS is oficially operational for IFR use:

http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsite...03-3-019x.html


However, it looks like the timeframe to get low IFR approach minimums will
be longer than originally anticipated. Also a prior post sugested it may
cost $1500 to update a Gamin 530, which means some people may choose not
to
upgrade... soon when getting into a rental or club plane with a GPS, there
may be not only IFR vs. VFR installations but also WAAS IFR instalations
to
complicate things further.

"For the near future, the "gold standard" for approach guidance remains an
instrument landing system (ILS). Ultimately though, in perhaps a decade's
time, WAAS has the potential to offer ILS-quality information to pilots in a
typical four-seat single-engine GA aircraft."

That will be right around the time L5 becomes available and WAAS is
obsolete.

John P. Tarver, MS/PE