Thomas Borchert wrote:
The FAA, and the rest of the world as well, want to eventually shut-down
the VORs. The only remaining ground-based systems will be ILSes.



Uhm, not quite. The JAA is all hot about DME-DME area navigation. They
thing GPS is not reliable enough. Go figure...


Thia the pertinent note on the LOWI RNAV (RNP) IAP:

1. GPS and IRS required (DME/DME, LLZ and VOR/DME updating not authorized).