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Re: Loran-C
From: UNK
Date: 2009 Mar 19, 10:33 -0400
From: UNK
Date: 2009 Mar 19, 10:33 -0400
On March 19, 2009 9:47 AM, Anabasis said: > As a marine navigator, I often forget that aircraft also use the > system. What would pilots do without a GPS based system on aircraft? Pilots still have VOR/DME, but this is being phased out. That system requires *many* more stations than LORAN-C, and some are being re-purposed as measurement and re-transmission stations for GPS corrections (LAAS). From this standpoint, maintaining LORAN-C as a GPS backup seems cost-effective... unless you believe that nothing will ever go wrong with GPS. [Back to marine nav] What of our oldest electronic navigation system, RDF? Do any transmitters still exist in the US/Canada? The Coast Guard's Light List for the northeast US no longer mentions RDF, nor are the old channel/code/sequence descriptors present for any of the harbor entrance or outer coastal lights. -- Peter Smith (who was once pretty good with a B&G/Sestral hand-held RDF) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
