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United States Pilots Association |
May 31 is the deadline to submit written comments to the FAA on its plans to decommission about 270 instrument approaches across the country later this year. This is the second round of cuts to approaches the FAA says are underused or redundant, and the agency reports it is saving nearly $20,000 per year with every approach it disables.
While most of the 217 approaches the FAA eliminated last July were NDB approaches, the new round includes a number of VOR and GPS approaches as well. And some approaches are scheduled to be deactivated as soon as August.
If you have an opinion on any of the specific approaches, mail your comments to the FAA by May 31, referencing the approach by name and location, at National Flight Procedures Group, P. O. Box 25082, Oklahoma City, OK 73125. The complete list of approaches scheduled to be disabled can be found at
Jan Hoynacki, Executive Director
United States Pilots Association