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LPV Acceptance Marks End of ‘Dive and Drive’

We often think of the FAA as a cumbersome organization that usually–but not always–gets the job done, often in its own sweet time. But with its Waas space-based augmentation system (Sbas) program, the agency has shown it can also move quickly.

About 60 years ago, the FAA commissioned its first Category I ILS precision approach aid, and today the agency has 1,280 Category I systems across the U.S., plus 160 Category IIs and 113 Category IIIs, for a total of 1,553. ILS has been a great system, and will be with us–at least in the form of Category IIs and IIIs, and a number of Category Is in critical locations–for many years ahead.