I was thinking the same thing, but I am no expert, that's for sure. Bob, can you help us understand what we are missing?
What you are missing is that this is in the works
but is in the discussion stage. No one at FAA has set pen to paper yet, so those of you who missed the "soon" in the title are getting all exercised for nothing. Maybe I should have said "...coming someday." There
will be changes to the PTS/ACS but at this point no one has details beyond what I said in my OP.
Once a year, representatives from Gleim, the Kings, ASA, et al meet with the question writers. ASA's rep gives me some insights, without placing any kind of restriction on what I do with the information, and I apparently throw the unmentionable in the punch bowl.
This thread has to set a record for conclusion-jumping. Let's go back to basics: The FAA announces that they will be cancelling a whole bunch of VOR and NDB (ground-based)
approaches because they are under-used, cost money to maintain, and require a fleet of flight-test aircraft to certify their accuracy. In the fullness of time, without the
navaids being maintained or certified, the lawyers at the FAA begin to worry about their liability position if they keep the VORs and NDBs in operation, so they pull the plug.
But the instructor/examiner community says "Hey, we have to block out half a day to fly to Smallburg to shoot the only VOR approach within 100 miles!"
The people who write the practical test standard/airman certification standards say "We have to make some changes!" Somehow, the stalwarts in the POA community transmogrify this into conjecture about GPS/WAAS.
Amazing. I will be sure to root for the POA conclusion-jumping team at the next Olympics.
Bob