ATC
EC plan would shift money from navaids to avionics
Eurocontrol might ask the European Commission to use some of the money expected to be saved by the planned decommissioning of VOR and NDB beacons to sponso

Eurocontrol might ask the European Commission to use some of the money expected to be saved by the planned decommissioning of VOR and NDB beacons to sponsor the development of avionics that would enable general aviation aircraft to operate in the sort of controlled airspace envisioned by the single European sky air traffic management (ATM) research (Sesar) program.

The idea emerged at a recent Eurocontrol workshop in Brussels attended by more than 100 regulators, operators, representatives of pilot organizations, airframers and equipment manufacturers.