And let's be honest, terminal radars aren't going away.
The official FAA presentations I saw were pretty clear that the direction is to dispense with ground based radar for separation services in the national airspace system - now when that will happen is the question. But seriously - I'm tempted to use the word "negligence" if you guys can't do LPV RNAV approaches and file /G and have in cockpit traffic and WX. Its almost core to IFR airworthiness at this point.
And it's tiresome to hear "its not part of our mission" - when in fact only a small portion of flight hours are flown deployed doing the "as designed" mission. Most of your flying (by hours) is in the US national airspace system I think. Call out your leaders in these NHA forums/flag panels for this mindset.
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