Originally Posted by
27/09
I don't know the costs of an ILS in the US nor anywhere else for that matter but I do know they are resource intensive to maintain compared to other nav aids. One reason the US dived down the WAAS (SBAS) path with such gusto was to reduce the number if ILS's thus reducing cost.
What is a disgrace is Australasia has been so slow to adopt SBAS, but that's not part of this discussion.
Actually I think it is. The whole point of an accident report is to learn the lessons from them to ensure it doesn't happen again. I believe the faffing around with non-precision approaches we continue to indulge in Australia is a disgrace when something like WAAS could so easily provide an answer.
I am not holding my breath that there will be any such recommendation in this long-awaited report.