About 6 months ago, I found a printed list from somewhere outlining the decommission of NDB's by the FAA and Nav Canada. Starting June 2005, the FAA has started decommissing them, and starting in July I believe, Nav Canada is starting to decommission them. By 2010, there will be none.
AIC 14 April 05 states that they are decommissing them... but there is not the list...
Do anybody know where I can find something in print about NDB's decommissing in Canada...
I don't miss marker beacons, I don't miss radio ranges, I don't miss, Omega or Loran. Goodbye NDB's. Good riddance. Twighlight effect, costal effect, nfg in thunderstorms... bah!!!
I doubt it cyyz. It's more to do with traffic falling below expected numbers and high pension costs, so it's more to retain the staus quo than cut costs to the customers.
Well, they've decommissioned two VOR's, but they're calling it cost savings because they were both shut down for airport construction and then it was decided not to bring them back online. I don't think it's quite the same idea as decommissioning VOR's as a matter of policy.
I guess what Nav Canada is saying is that it is time everone got into the 21st century and bought a CERTIFIED GPS. Much, much better than an ancient old ADF. Shit those things were obsolete when I learned how to fly in the '60s. The GPS is so much more accurate. I have alays claimed the only advantage to an ADF is that it is cheap.
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Funny thing, though, is that the left hand at NavCan doesn't know what the right is doing: The current CAP3 has an NDB approach for Gimli, MB published in it - that's predicated upon an decommissioned NDB
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North Shore wrote:Funny thing, though, is that the left hand at NavCan doesn't know what the right is doing: The current CAP3 has an NDB approach for Gimli, MB published in it - that's predicated upon an decommissioned NDB
That's a no brainer...it obviously got decomissioned between the April 13 CAP 3 and the next issue. My June 8th CAP 3 has the approach pulled out of it. I guess it drives home the importance of checking NOTAM's...although I'm surprised they don't mention the approach, just the NDB being nixed.
