[aaronfitz]

The waves of deactivations on the ground stations have already started. We're on a trajectory of GPS over-reliance.

https://www.boldmethod.com/learn-to-fly/navigation/the-faa-i...

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/may/23/vor...

[throw0101a]

From the first (2016) article:

> 10 years from now, the network of VORs will be about 68% the size it currently is.

So they're cutting about one-third of the VORs by the end of the phase out.

[dwheeler]

Bad idea. Relying on any single technology creates a nasty single point of failure. GPS signals are weak signals from satellites & obviously can be jammed.

[ericpauley]

The VOR MON is structured to provide a usable (for safety purposes) backstop should GPS fail, so from a safety perspective this isn’t making us more reliant.