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Old 27th Mar 2009, 14:01
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NDB has the huge advantage of being part of an old crude and robust system. Cheap and liitle calibration involved, unlike VOR.

A solar flare will knock out GPS and a decent one will destroy the satellites. Of course in todays world one at the level of the Carrington event of 1859 would mean you die of thirst/starvation/unrest if the CFIT didn't get you first.
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