AOPA is pushing congress to repristinate funding for LORAN. General
aviation is probably the heaviest user on this Nav system. The
aviation user community would love to see Nav systems with integrated
LORAN and GPS capabilty, but the industry has done little in this
area, due to lack of government commitment to LORAN. The FAA knows the
GPS can be easily jammed, but has done nothing do push LORAN as the
GPS backup system.
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On Nov 14, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Christopher Hoover <[email protected]>
wrote:
David I. Emery wrote:
I have emailed my brother in law who is a rear admiral (I think
now called a vice admiral) and currently CFO of the USCG (and as a
note
re your alma mater a MIT Sloan grad) and rather loudly said so
myself. He most likely was part of the group that made the
decision... I intend
to ask him why they did it when I next see him.
David,
I see three possibilities: a) modernization (E-LORAN), b) maintain
existing service and capabilities, c) shut it down.
It would be helpful to know if USCG supports the plan to shut the
system down.
If USCG does not, those of us who are US citizens can lobby Congress
to restore funding for the service. There's an educational piece
here to do.
-ch
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