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The FAA Gears Up for LORAN
| Abstract: | The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been conducting a carefully controlled program to bring LORAN into the National Airspace System (NAS) as a navigation aid for en route, terminal and nonprecision approach phases of flight. Known as the Early Implementation Project, this program has been very successful in that over a dozen LORAN approaches have been commissioned and considerable data have been accumulated on performance characteristics and reliability of the LORAN system. Now, however, we are on the verge of a very important and dramatic occurrence in the NAS, i.e., the full operational deployment of LORAN. While LORAN will be a change in the NAS, it will cause many changes in FAA-controlled operations. For instance, LORAN is an earth referenced navigation system versus the station referenced navaids presently used in the NAS. LORAN facilitates point-to-point routing; but how can this be reconciled with the current routing structure? Finally, LORAN will make possible thousands of new nonprecision approaches. Development of these procedures will necessitate extensive operational and organizational changes in the FAA. This paper will discuss measures the FAA is taking to be prepared for the advent of full LORAN operations in the National Airspace System. |
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Proceedings of the 1990 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation January 23 - 25, 1990 Princess Resort Hotel San Diego, CA |
| Pages: | 53 - 57 |
| Cite this article: | Kern, John S., "The FAA Gears Up for LORAN," Proceedings of the 1990 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, San Diego, CA, January 1990, pp. 53-57. |
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