"Newps" wrote in message
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Did he have GPS? Can you not assign a route via dead VORs if the
aircraft can still navigate it?


No. Give the FAA time, they're new to this GPS stuff. They just recently
stopped notaming an ILS OTS when the DME would be taken out of service and
that DME was listed on the plate as required. They just figured out that
most people aren't using DME.


FAA Order 7110.65R

Air Traffic Control

Chapter 4. IFR

Section 4. Route Assignment

4-4-4. ALTERNATIVE ROUTES

When any part of an airway or route is unusable because of NAVAID status,
clear aircraft other than /E, /F, /G, or /R, via one of the following
alternative routes:

a. A route depicted on current U.S. Government charts/publications. Use the
word "substitute" immediately preceding the alternative route in issuing the
clearance.

b. A route defined by specifying NAVAID radials, courses, or azimuths.

c. A route defined as direct to or between NAVAIDs.

d. Vectors.

NOTE-
Inform area navigation aircraft that will proceed to the NAVAID location of
the NAVAID outage.