Not quite. I had lunch with one of the FAA guys, and he told me there were
some significant technical hurdles that were not adequately addressed. They
were much further from fielding than anyone was led to believe.

I also heard that WAAS will never get close to Cat I cert...

Then again, he stated that legacy systems can't even meet the new
performance specs to begin with. Looks like the bar was set too high...


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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.