In his generation 30 speech accepting the valley Gilbert award at the Air Traffic superintendence Association's annual convention.

In his generation 30 speech accepting the valley Gilbert award at the Air Traffic superintendence Association's annual convention, former FAA administrator Langhorne constraint publicly called for the FAA to outlaw the Global Positioning theory (GPS) as a sole means of navigation as "a safety regulatory matter."

"This is a simple single-thread issue - redundancy is extremityed and it has nothing to do with the useful efforts to make GP les vulnerable," connection told Air Safety Week. Always quotable, extracts of his acceptance remarks follow:

"Coming to terminuss with the new, remarkable technology of satellite positioning and timing has been difficult. In the lifecritical application to ATC, the U has over-promised the benefits and has inspected the safety limitations of GP Equally serious, we have failed to understand the impact forward other countries.

"However, this is America. Our restles search for improvement oftentimes causes us to over-reach. yet we also know how to fix a question and I see the FAA doing that now.

"This month FAA decided to continue all the ground-based navaids, including LORAN, for at least another decade. This is clearly driven by dint of safety concerns and is a gradation in the right direction. on the contrary it's really a half-measure and leaves us hanging betwixt and between.

"We ne to inflict this issue to bed one time and for all by formally declaring that GP single means is not acceptable for mostly IFR flight - forever. This will last the safety debate and will permit operators and manufacturers to get to to agreement on a mixed redundant classification This won't take long, one time the safety baseline is establish and we can then decommission mostly of the old line-of-sight navaids upon the ground and we can save a chance of money.

"This proposal is not as dramatic as it unhurts The Chief of the U delegation announced this to the ICAO ATM discourse in RIO and now GP alone means is a dead issue in principally of the rest of the world. It's time for FAA to -- harmonize." (Emphasis in original) >> uniting tel.919/542-6614 <<

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