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> FAA have spent a lot of time thinking about how to keep aviation secure in a GPS denied environment, which is their basis for the *build out* of the VOR MON
by labcomputer 2y ago
> FAA have spent a lot of time thinking about how to keep aviation secure in a GPS denied environment, which is their basis for the *build out* of the VOR MON
That’s an interesting characterization, given that the MON is a list of VORs they are not planning to take down.
- FL410 2y agoBut that's better than taking them all down. Fact of the matter is most of us hate using VORs anyway, and left to our own devices probably wouldn't care one bit if they were removed. It is a good thing that someone is second-guessing that. Degrading to MON wouldn't be great, but it would be much preferrable to hoping poor ATC can figure out how to vector everyone all the sudden. I think more industries could apply the idea of a Minimum Operational whatever
- wkat4242 2y ago> Fact of the matter is most of us hate using VORs anyway This is partly UX and doesn't have to be like this. Cockpit systems could make this a lot easier to select VORs and radials without having to manually keep track of frequencies. After all a successful GPS fix is impossible to accomplish by a human given the raw receive data, which is why it's all automated inside the receiver. We can optimize the hell out of VORs as well. And only people flying ancient aircraft still have to do the thing. In fact it probably would be great to add some optional authentication signal to it, as even a VOR can be prone to jamming or spoofing.