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Old 11th July 2008 | 09:58
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mad_jock
 
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Well I hope they don't get rid of the LBA NDB. It has a very good secondary use as an airfield locator. Apart from which I sweated blood using it during my IR.

As for the rest of them to be honest unless they are knackard and need replacement I would say keep them. They must cost buttons compared to most other nav aids.

Not every commercial aircraft has an all singing and dancing FMC EFIS nav kit.
Some of us sit navigate prefectly happily around the country using steam powered instruments and some first generation B-RNAV GPS.

Personally I use them for abeam fuel checks apart from confirming we are on the airway the GPS thinks we are.

the ones I have regularly used in the last 12 months are

Leeds LBA
Litchfield LIC
New Galloway NGY
Scotstown Head SHD

Has anyone mentioned to the offshore lot that SHD is for the chop.

PPL VFR flying yes i can see some of them of use but even en-route in CAS with commercial aircraft they are not useless.

And as for not putting a VOR/DME back at NCL. The amount of airspace busts that occured a few years ago when a NAV database update shifted it 10 miles inland should have proved its worth.
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