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 reduce the number of instrument approaches in the US, particularly obsolete ones like NDB approaches, which are rarely used in modern aviation.
• Maintaining these legacy approaches is costly, requiring periodic physical surveys for obstacles (e.g., trees, buildings) and expensive flight checks, often leading to increasing minimums.
• Modern navigation technology, such as GPS, has rendered many traditional approaches and paper charts largely unnecessary, prompting the call to mothball all but a few essential VOR approaches for emergency redundancy.

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