FAA Releases VOR Decommissioning Policy
The FAA formally published its policy including the criteria for selecting hundreds of VOR navigation aids that will be decommissioned over the next decade. The policy, released today, further outlines the process for decommissioning. The agency has selected 308 VORs to be decommissioned as the agency moves to a satellite-based navigational system (www.ainonline.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
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Agency has already started converting some of the RNAV STARS to where they don't include any VORs anyway. Ironically there have been a couple of STARS I deal with on a daily basis that have been changed, yet the VOR they used to start from isn't on the list. What is slightly annoying is that instead of sharing the same waypoint that is co-located with said VOR, one of the arrivals has a randomly placed waypoint about five miles away. That has already been causing some confusion amongst the airlines and we've had to deal with all kinds of funky routes requiring additional coordination with adjacent facilities because of where the waypoint is placed. I'm sure if I raise the issue I'll just get told that there is some agency publication that spells out why they have to do it that way, written by a group that has never been behind the controls of an airplane or in front of a radar scope....oh well.
There are a couple of those on both lists that I know have actually been out of service for some time. I guess this is just the formal announcement that they're going to turn them off for good. Then there are another few no-brainers, ones that aren't part of an airway and just serve an airport or two for VOR approaches that nobody uses with any regularity. But a bunch of that list has me scratching my head about what is going to happen when something hits the fan.