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Old October 8th, 2006, 14:52   #21
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Default Re: Airline Approaches

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Originally Posted by ATPInstructor View Post
Europe is surprisingly behind on incorporating GPS technology
Its a lot harder to justify a subscription-based navigation system (i.e., Galileo) if you already have a bunch of procedures defined using other, free, global positioning systems. I suspect a lot of their lag is politically motivated ... you know, the European Way (and I don't mean Rumsfeld's "Old Europe").
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