I got very involved with the CAA GPS trials last year for I really thought that we had a chance of entering the 21st century. I even took a CAA chap who was involved in the trials flying with me.
So what has been the result?
My local airfield (which was one of the six airfields involved in the trial) has apparently got no interest in having an approved GPS letdown procedure.
Why do you think that is?
I believe it is because the CAA have demanded that they pay for a safety review to approve the very same procedures that we used during the trial using charts prepared by the CAA!
Have any of the GPS procedures at any of the six airfields been approved?
This all appears to be a question of funding. I wish someone would sort out this mess for I would much rather do a GPS letdown than follow the approved NDB procedure (and let me tell you, I have done thousands of NDBs during the last 50 years all over the world).