Federal Radionavigation Plan -- A Perilous and Expensive Airway for Civil Aviation

Robert P. Crow

Abstract:	The Federal Radionavigation Plan states that all present navigation and landing guidance facilities will be retired in 2005 to 2010, and Ml dependence for these fimctions will be placed on augmented GPS. Once this is imple-mented, civil aviation wilI be totally vulnerable to ter-rorist jamming of the GPS signals over wide earth areas with potentially widespread disruption of air traffic and possible disasters. It has also beeome apparent that the use of GPS/GNSS is complex and expensive for the required civil aviation timctions. It is clear that a differ-ent system form is needed for civil aviation, a redundant sateIlite/ground based system that will prevent it from be-ing a jamming target while providing ATC surveillance, navigation, collision warning/avoidance, high-speed data link, Cat. I landing guidance and voice com-mnnications globally, plus precision Cat.111gnidanee in the terminal areas as needed. Such a system will be described.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1998) June 1 - 3, 1998 The Adams Mark Hotel Denver, CO
Pages:	285 - 293
Cite this article:	Crow, Robert P., "Federal Radionavigation Plan -- A Perilous and Expensive Airway for Civil Aviation," Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1998), Denver, CO, June 1998, pp. 285-293.
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