[time-nuts] European LORAN-C

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <CAD2JfAjycHu7jP4d4_d3R2BZBM=bxqW+xDm+Xrkd9Xjaf7Lm8Q at mail.gmail.com>
, paul swed writes:
>Sorry to hear pictures would be something to see.
>So slowly but surely loran C in Europe is going away.

Well, depends on EU politics, so it is anybodys best guess really.

It's a terribly long story, but the short summary was that the EU
had a draft for an european radio navigation plan written, and it
showed that 40% of the benefits came from LORAN-C because it would
be an independent backup for any GNSS you care to mention, whereas
adding another GNSS (say, Galileo) didn't really improve things
that much relative to having GPS and GLONASS.

Since the LORAN-C cost was a small fraction of the Galileo cost,
this was not the desired result and the report was supressed
("until Galileo is in operation")


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