Originally Posted by ERJ135
I believe the GPS with vertical navigation is called a WAAS system. Pretty cool stuff. They are trying to get it at the airport I teach out of. We have a LOC but to make it an ILS they would have to knock down a few houses @ the end of the rwy and that would get the neighbors upset. So they want to take the GPS app we have and make it with the vertical navigation or the WAAS system.
Yeah, I was told that my home airport was selected for ths type of approach - to be used in its experimental stages. I could be wrong...but you are right - I think it's pretty sweet. I believe the GNS-480 is all set up for this type of approach.
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