Re: Will GPS ever really replace ADF/DME?

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Subject:	Re: Will GPS ever really replace ADF/DME?
From:	Dave Butler
Date:	Thu Oct 03 07:01:17 2002

Richard Kaplan wrote:
>
> "Tri Pacer Pilot" wrote in message
> news:...
>
> > I know that the IFR GPS will substitute for an ADF and DME in most cases.
>
> Realize that some IFR GPS systems do not have localizers in their
> database. In that case you could not use this GPS for the DME part of
> a LOC/DME approach unless the stepdown fixes were named intersections.

Really? I thought all the LOC/DME antennas were in all the
IFR GPS databases? Maybe not the enroute-only boxes? Which
IFR GPS systems dont have LOC/DMEs in their databases?

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