GPS is a supplemental navigation system, former FAA chief says

The Global Positioning System is a supplemental navigation system because it cannot stand alone as can VOR/DME, ILS, MLS and some other ground-based systems can, former FAA Administrator Langhorne Bond told the Avionics 99 conference last week in Bellevue, Wash. GPS "can only be used when teamed...

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