Originally Posted by
PPRuNe Radar
Why would an en route CAS provider have to provide navaids for people who fly outside their airspace ??
because the terms of their licence requires it?
As a business, NATS should try and do the minimum possible work consistent with their licence and the law. They should equally lobby the regulator to impose, through law, process, equipment and costs obligations on others to to reduce their cost and simplify their life all while trying to maintain or increase prices. Much as train companies should run small overcrowded trains with very high prices only for main line passengers.
It is the government's roll through regulators to impose operating standards, minimum services, and price controls to offset the one-sided nature of decisions by a monopoly supplier (which in any given piece of airspace is true for ATC).
It is the general public's job to campaign against the unreasonable actions of monopolies and for the rights of minority members of the community to be protected.
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Not withstanding the above concept, the NDB as a navaid has had its day. Hopefully the CAA will at sometime make peace with 'The Work of The Devil' (i.e. non B-RNAV use of GPS).