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[IRCA] PNG X-band beacons
- Subject: [IRCA] PNG X-band beacons
- From: Volodya S <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 04:20:24 +0000
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Further to studying the excellent resource you mention, Bruce (
worldaerodata.com), it's clear to me that the airport at Ust-Bolsheretsk is
closed. The NDB is probably used for helicopter traffic now. All this
discussion re NDBs got me wondering about PNG beacons in the X-band. We
used to regularly hear GA in Goroka on 1725 and KUT, especially, on 1737
from Kumul Platform, but it's been years since I've seen any reports for
ANY PNG X-band beacons. Is it that we're no longer looking, or that
they're gone (although all still listed in the website above), or that
they're no longer audible? Anyone hearing PNG anymore??? Walt
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:00 AM, Volodya S <canswl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bruce, NDB are not always located right at the airport. I know in Canada,
> our CFS (Canadian Flight Supplement) lists every airport in the country,
> along with all of the navigational aids, and where they are located. VHF
> VORs, are usually located some miles from the airport. In the case of
> Ust-Bolsheretzk, the only airport I could find is at coordinates 52.909271,
> 156.882535 That has to be an airport, but sure looks abandoned to me,
> except that abandoned airports have X's across the runways. This one does
> not. It had to be a former military airport with what looks like a lot of
> dispersal areas to the south of the runway (a single runway, with a
> parallel taxiway). I'm assuming that the NDB is for this site. Google
> maps looks like there might be a tower at exactly 52.816696, 156.267171.
> You can see the red/white tower, and perhaps another tower slightly to the
> SE from it. Shows up better on Bing maps (with shadows). Good fun!
> 73,...Walt
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