grattonja
Line Up and Wait
As a followup to the previous thread on NDBs, it now appears that the FAA is already in motion on deletion of NDBs.
I am on the DC pilots web list, and received an email string on the Ambler NDB at LOM, Wings Field. Word is it has been notamed out of service for some time, and indications are that it will not be coming back.
This is interesting, as I understood that, at least at first, only airports with other ground based approaches would lose the NDB. Wings has two RNAV approaches and the NDB approach, no VOR or other approach.
Can anyone confirm this at Wings? If true, it will narrow the usefulness of Wings for aircraft equipped with only the "older" instruments, and no GPS.
By the way, if you fly the ADIZ or the Baltimore/Washington area with any regularity, I highly recommend joining the DC Pilots list. At least, take a look at the archives once in a while. If it is happening at one of the local airports, it will be there first.
Jim G
I am on the DC pilots web list, and received an email string on the Ambler NDB at LOM, Wings Field. Word is it has been notamed out of service for some time, and indications are that it will not be coming back.
This is interesting, as I understood that, at least at first, only airports with other ground based approaches would lose the NDB. Wings has two RNAV approaches and the NDB approach, no VOR or other approach.
Can anyone confirm this at Wings? If true, it will narrow the usefulness of Wings for aircraft equipped with only the "older" instruments, and no GPS.
By the way, if you fly the ADIZ or the Baltimore/Washington area with any regularity, I highly recommend joining the DC Pilots list. At least, take a look at the archives once in a while. If it is happening at one of the local airports, it will be there first.
Jim G
See? Now that wasn't so hard was it! ;-)