charlie83
18th Jan 2011, 22:42
The current air navigation systems work, lots of redundancy, what with the various forms of nav available. I think GPS is brilliant, slowly becoming the de facto preference.
However....
Brussels is spending billions on a satellite system described as a stupid waste of money by the company developing it – Telegraph Blogs (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100072447/brussels-is-spending-billions-on-a-satellite-system-described-as-a-stupid-waste-of-money-by-the-company-developing-it/)
Interesting article. I hope it does go ahead. ADF technology is, I think a bit obsolete these days, bearing in mind there seems to consensus towards more RNAV.
So, do we need another GNS?
However....
Brussels is spending billions on a satellite system described as a stupid waste of money by the company developing it – Telegraph Blogs (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100072447/brussels-is-spending-billions-on-a-satellite-system-described-as-a-stupid-waste-of-money-by-the-company-developing-it/)
Interesting article. I hope it does go ahead. ADF technology is, I think a bit obsolete these days, bearing in mind there seems to consensus towards more RNAV.
So, do we need another GNS?