Big News -- WAAS GPS is Operational for IFR

"Stan Gosnell" wrote in message
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And the price for a VOR receiver is sane? It's just a simple radio

No doubt all avionics are expensive -- the problem is that a GPS-only world
would *force* people who have invested in an IFR-capable airplane to now
spend *even more* money on a new upgrade.

Actually, this would be even a worse hit because the value of existing
non-GPS navigation equipment would instantly depreciate to near-zero.

It would be even worse on top of that because of the need for ongoing GPS
database subscriptions.

Multiply this triple financial hit by however many airplanes are in a given
flight school and lots of those airplanes will just be converted to VFR use.
Not only that, but many pilots who own instrument airplanes flown only
occasionally IFR will decide it is just not worth the effort and expense and
will revert to being VFR-only pilots of VFR-only airplanes. IFR would
become notably less common in GA, and that would be a shame.


--
Richard Kaplan, CFII

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