K=D8HB wrote:
wrote

Like I been saying . . .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4115761.stm

"By the end of the decade, a global independent
satellite navigation system, under civil control, will
be available to all."

but..... but..... Brain said it's supposed to be a "weapons
system"!?!?

Not to worry, the Shrub will send up some B58's to bomb them out of
the sky.

dit dit

de Hans, K0HB

Here's another piece of it: It has taken *bloody forever* for the FAA
to finally even alow GPS to be used for navigation in the skies. I was
using it before before my hangermate who had a nice old Cessna 140 was
allowed to have a GPS xvcr anywhere in the 140 during flight ops never
mind in his panel. I was legal because my ultralight was not a
certificated A/C, his 140 is certificated. Somebody had to be on the
leading edge. Heh. Thus it was in the early 1990s.

It's all changed now. Commercial GPS airliner navigation has enormous
implications as they relate to a reduction in fuel consumption and
flight durations. Has to do with the airliners FINALLY being able to
get off the twisted 1930s Victor airways system and it's archaic and
expensive-to-maintain FAA ground-mounted electronic waypoints, omnis,
VORs, etc. and instead fly point-to-point via GPS. I'm rattling on too
much here.

It's happening, precision GPS is coming to the airline biz, bye-bye
omnis, FAA jobs, whatever. It's all about money.

Let's say that at some given moment a few years out after GPS has
become the nav aid of choice and that there are 20 airliners jammed
with citizens on final in cruddy WX and some intellectual giant like
Rumsfeld shuts off the pieces of GPS the pilots are using to find the
runway . .

w3rv