FAA pulls funding for LAAS landing systems

LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System) was to provide CAT 2 and 3 ILS
capability at major airports by fine tuning GPS and up loading
correction signals to aircraft. FAA has canceled the program. Looks like
the ground based ILS systems once slated for removal by 2010 are here to
stay.

"JJ" wrote in message
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LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System) was to provide CAT 2 and 3 ILS
capability at major airports by fine tuning GPS and up loading
correction signals to aircraft. FAA has canceled the program. Looks like
the ground based ILS systems once slated for removal by 2010 are here to
stay.

It is only the VOR bandwidth that will be freed up.

ILS is a good system.

JJ wrote:

LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System) was to provide CAT 2 and 3 ILS
capability at major airports by fine tuning GPS and up loading
correction signals to aircraft. FAA has canceled the program. Looks like
the ground based ILS systems once slated for removal by 2010 are here to
stay.

They finally figured out the airlines are married to ILS, both domestically
and internationally.

Tarver Engineering wrote:

"JJ" wrote in message
...
LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System) was to provide CAT 2 and 3 ILS
capability at major airports by fine tuning GPS and up loading
correction signals to aircraft. FAA has canceled the program. Looks like
the ground based ILS systems once slated for removal by 2010 are here to
stay.

It is only the VOR bandwidth that will be freed up.

ILS is a good system.

High-end MLS would have been better.

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Tarver Engineering wrote:

"JJ" wrote in message
...
LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System) was to provide CAT 2 and 3 ILS
capability at major airports by fine tuning GPS and up loading
correction signals to aircraft. FAA has canceled the program. Looks
like
the ground based ILS systems once slated for removal by 2010 are here
to
stay.

It is only the VOR bandwidth that will be freed up.

ILS is a good system.

High-end MLS would have been better.

The MLS systems with GPS substituted for DME work well, but I don't see how
to justify the expense of the change.

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JJ wrote:

LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System) was to provide CAT 2 and 3 ILS
capability at major airports by fine tuning GPS and up loading
correction signals to aircraft. FAA has canceled the program. Looks
like
the ground based ILS systems once slated for removal by 2010 are here
to
stay.

They finally figured out the airlines are married to ILS, both
domestically
and internationally.

except in for the problems with ILS in Europe...

--
Bob Noel

I don't have that kind of money to put the equipment in my plane.

ILS system seems to be fine for me.


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Tarver Engineering wrote:

"JJ" wrote in message
...
LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System) was to provide CAT 2 and 3 ILS
capability at major airports by fine tuning GPS and up loading
correction signals to aircraft. FAA has canceled the program. Looks
like
the ground based ILS systems once slated for removal by 2010 are here
to
stay.

It is only the VOR bandwidth that will be freed up.

ILS is a good system.

High-end MLS would have been better.

Bob Noel writes:

except in for the problems with ILS in Europe...

What's the problem with ILS approaches in Europe? Frequency congestion?

-jav

In article , Javier Henderson
wrote:

except in for the problems with ILS in Europe...

What's the problem with ILS approaches in Europe? Frequency congestion?

yes. and interference from FM radio stations.

--
Bob Noel

"Richard Hertz" wrote in message
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I don't have that kind of money to put the equipment in my plane.

ILS system seems to be fine for me.

And in probably 95% of cases it's fine for everyone.


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Tarver Engineering wrote:

"JJ" wrote in message

It is only the VOR bandwidth that will be freed up.

ILS is a good system.

High-end MLS would have been better.

And terribly expensive with little gain in functionality in the overwhelming
majority of implementations.