Situated on the northwest of the St. Louis metropolitan area, the St. Charles County Smartt Airport (KSET) in Missouri is a busy general aviation facility that many pilots use to get into the area.

Area navigation using GPS has been around (for us) for about 30 years. Before that we did mostly the same thing using LORAN for a while. But, the National Airspace System was designed around VHF Omni- ...

VOR navigation, while a standard backup, has inherent inaccuracies stemming from station alignment, receiver tolerances, and pilot input errors (e.g., parallax), which can accumulate and result in ...