Scott III from TX

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This was the lead item in the AOPA ePilot newsletter this morning: FAA TURNS ON WAAS The FAA at 12:01 a.m. EDT Thursday officially turned on the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). WAAS enhances GPS and is to eventually provide ILS-like precision approaches to thousands of general aviation airports that don't have them today. "Everywhere I go GA pilots ask, 'How can we get an ILS at our airport,'" said AOPA President Phil Boyer at a press conference at the FAA Command Center in Herndon, Virginia. "WAAS is the answer for providing precision approaches to all of those airports where ILS just isn't possible. And we can provide an approach with vertical guidance to each runway end." FAA Administrator Marion Blakey admitted at the press conference that WAAS took longer and was more expensive than originally forecast. "But we really are talking about rocket science here," she said. "We were doing things that had never been done before. The general aviation community will be the first to benefit from this system. I know you've been eager for this, and I applaud your patience." AOPA has been a strong WAAS advocate since the program's inception in 1995. The association has lobbied for WAAS in Congress, and was a key instigator of an independent review of the program in 2000 that determined WAAS was necessary and technically feasible.

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