FAA pulls funding for LAAS landing systems

"JJ" wrote in message
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LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System) was to provide CAT 2 and 3 ILS
capability at major airports by fine tuning GPS and up loading
correction signals to aircraft. FAA has canceled the program. Looks like
the ground based ILS systems once slated for removal by 2010 are here to
stay.

It is only the VOR bandwidth that will be freed up.

ILS is a good system.

Tarver Engineering wrote:

"JJ" wrote in message
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LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System) was to provide CAT 2 and 3 ILS
capability at major airports by fine tuning GPS and up loading
correction signals to aircraft. FAA has canceled the program. Looks like
the ground based ILS systems once slated for removal by 2010 are here to
stay.

It is only the VOR bandwidth that will be freed up.

ILS is a good system.

High-end MLS would have been better.

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Tarver Engineering wrote:

"JJ" wrote in message
...
LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System) was to provide CAT 2 and 3 ILS
capability at major airports by fine tuning GPS and up loading
correction signals to aircraft. FAA has canceled the program. Looks
like
the ground based ILS systems once slated for removal by 2010 are here
to
stay.

It is only the VOR bandwidth that will be freed up.

ILS is a good system.

High-end MLS would have been better.

The MLS systems with GPS substituted for DME work well, but I don't see how
to justify the expense of the change.

I don't have that kind of money to put the equipment in my plane.

ILS system seems to be fine for me.


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Tarver Engineering wrote:

"JJ" wrote in message
...
LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System) was to provide CAT 2 and 3 ILS
capability at major airports by fine tuning GPS and up loading
correction signals to aircraft. FAA has canceled the program. Looks
like
the ground based ILS systems once slated for removal by 2010 are here
to
stay.

It is only the VOR bandwidth that will be freed up.

ILS is a good system.

High-end MLS would have been better.

"Richard Hertz" wrote in message
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I don't have that kind of money to put the equipment in my plane.

ILS system seems to be fine for me.

And in probably 95% of cases it's fine for everyone.


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Tarver Engineering wrote:

"JJ" wrote in message

It is only the VOR bandwidth that will be freed up.

ILS is a good system.

High-end MLS would have been better.

And terribly expensive with little gain in functionality in the overwhelming
majority of implementations.

Richard Hertz wrote:

I don't have that kind of money to put the equipment in my plane.

ILS system seems to be fine for me.

ILS is a fine system, and has served us well for many years as a robust
precision approach and landing system. Category III facilites are particularly
awesome, representing bleeding edge refinements in a system that has been
around for a long time. In the early 1970s they replaced most of the "WW II"
components with much more stable localizers, at least at the major airports.