Government Stalls Navaid Transition Plan
The U.S. government has pushed back plans to begin the ``phase-down'' of older navigation aids, to reflect delays in implementing satellite-based systems. Reducing the number of VOR/DMEs, ILSes and NDBs now will begin in 2008 -- three years later than the DOT had projected in spring 1999. The...
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