Re: Will GPS ever really replace ADF/DME?

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Subject:	Re: Will GPS ever really replace ADF/DME?
From:	Tarver Engineering
Date:	Sat Oct 05 17:53:00 2002

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
news:20021005210951.24314.00000285@mb-mc.aol.com...
> >From: rkaplan@umrpc.com (Richard Kaplan)
> >Date: 10/5/02 7:50 PM Central Daylight Time
> >Message-id:
> >
> >The cost to maintain the Loran
> >system indefinitely is miniscule compared with GPS.
> >
>
> How can that be?

WAAS.

> Even if GPS were not used at all in civil aviation, it would
> still be used by the military that created it. GPS is essentially free.

Try $10 billion for nothing; well OK, a safety hazard.

John

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