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"Wow, how things and attitudes have changed. I remember a mission over Afghanistan when my GPS went figure merit 9, my recovery base was 500-2 with blowing sand and all they had to get back in was a portable TACAN"
With the T-6, T-1 and T-38C all having GPS we are raising a generation of GPS aviators. The GPS is not the only navaid in those aircraft either so young aviatiors will get their share of prec/non-prec approaches(that aren't GPS) as well as basic navigation.
The TACAN as a navaid was already to have been decommissioned that's why the T-6, T-38C, and possibly the F-22 do not have a TACAN. (That's what I have been told, still looking for it in writing) Embrace technology or get left behind.
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"By the way not all mil fields have an ILS, especially in combat"
this topic is "Approaches at UPT"