The navaids are actually there for legal and safety purposes or the 495 (I have one as backup) would be standard fitment in the A380
Yet another furphie - I rest my case!
JM - I am actually having a very good day thank you! I am just fed up with reading all of this rubbish.
Time to face up to it, NDB's are history - along with lights on towers to mark the airways, VAR, flight engineers (mostly)/wireless operators/navigators, Ozzie DME, DME homings and let downs etc etc etc. Its called progress!
Dr 