"Dave Butler" wrote in message
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I've also seen (on an Angel flight, coincidentally) that I knew from
NOTAMs that a VOR was scheduled to go OTS for maintenance during my
flight, and should go out of service about the time I got to it. I was
surprised to find I received the identifier, and queried ATC - was the VOR
operational or not? They had no clue. Shortly after that the identifier
stopped, and I informed ATC I would be out of navaid range for a few
minutes and requested they monitor my track, which they agreed to do.

Curiosity question for ATCers: how do you find out about inop navaids?


Requests for maintenance outages on NAVAIDs within the airspace delegated to
the facility are made by Airway Facilities. If they're approved, we show
the NAVAID OTS. If a NAVAID in an adjacent facility is OTS we're generally
notified by that facility.