Approximately 50% of the UKs VORs are scheduled to be removed in line with the CAAs
Future Airspace Strategy which is planned to totally transform air traffic management from 2020 onwards.
What appears to be totally absent from this proposal is any form of training review to realign IR training to cope with Space Based Aids instead of the traditional Needle Based Aids. EASA have just set in concrete (EU Law) a system based upon 1950s technology which the CAA are hell bent on enforcing in the most obtuse manner they can dream up. When asked the question how do you train when the aids are being removed, the answer was "that's why we have Simulators!" But surely they simulate the real World and have their nav aids removed as well! Its akin to closing down the power stations in line with some other daft EU Regulation with no replacements. Looks like the Lemmings have mated with the Sheep!