On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 13:42 +0000, Martin Spott wrote:
> James Turner wrote:
> 
> > Addendum - looking at nav,dat, it contains DME entries for each ILS,  
> > so that part at least is unnecessary - [...]
> 
> Yup - the "DME element of an [ILS,VORTAC,VOR-DME,NDB-DME]" is to be a
> separate entity in the 'nav.dat' file by definition,
> 
> Martin.

Because DME is an optional element to {ILS, VOR-DME,NDB-DME} and not
always co-located.

The TACAN specification requires DME, so all VORTACs should have an 1:1
associated, co-located DME.  

Ron



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