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Yes, its 1998. Good point. Raytheon is about 5 years late already on this
contract and the are
now trying to take credit for finishing early. What a joke. They are "well
ahead of
schedule". Thats because they are blaming the govt for all their delays.
I used to work for
Hughes which was acquired by Raytheon. Things immediately went down the
tubes. I quit that
piece of S__T company within the first year.
"flyer" wrote in message
news:5e700d2d.0210111327.6c8ec04f@posting.google.com...
> WAAS has PASSED the critical 60 day test and Raytheon can now turn the
> system over to the FAA in February, well ahead of schedule. Raytheon
> has
> encouraged the FAA to approve WAAS for IFR in June, instead of next
> December.
>
> This from the AOPA web site:
>
> As soon as WAAS is approved for IFR, FAA expects to issue a "blanket
> approval" permitting all IFR approach-approved WAAS receivers to fly
> the LNAV/VNAV minima now being published on some approach charts. FAA
> will soon begin to publish "LPV" approaches, a new approach type that
> has lower minima and can be flown only with WAAS equipment. LPV
> approaches will likely have minima of 250 feet and three quarters of
> mile visibility with approach lights and precision runway markings.
>
> So my question is this. I have a WAAS-ready Garmin 430 box. What
> will
> happen when WAAS is activated? Will I sent the thing back to Garmin
> for
> an update that loads new software? What will the box do that it
> doesnt
> do now? How will the VNAV information be displayed?

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