Good Riddance

The FAA announced theyre gonna prune the umptyzillion instrument approaches maintained in the US. Its about time. After all, when was the last time you flew an NDB approach? In fact, when was the last time you flew an airplane with a working ADF that even could fly an NDB approach?

Key Takeaways:

• The FAA plans to prune the large number of instrument approaches, especially obsolete ones like NDBs, which are rarely used in modern aviation.
• Maintaining these approaches is expensive, requiring costly periodic surveys for environmental changes (like trees) and regular flight checks to ensure accuracy.
• The author argues that with the prevalence of GPS and electronic navigation, most traditional approaches are unnecessary, recommending only a few VOR approaches be kept as a contingency for potential GPS outages.

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