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Old 11th Apr 2015, 17:50
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peekay4
 
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A shiny new terminal is a fine place for high rent retail opportunities. Navaids on the other hand are an unnecessary expense, whose maintenance is a constant drain on resources.
And as I understand it:

New terminal = investment by the airport authority
New navaid = cost to NavCanada

Considering the transition to RNAV GNSS approaches, there's going to be very little appetite to invest in net-new ILS equipment, even though a large fraction of commercial aircraft in Canada cannot perform precision GPS approaches.
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