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Tim Dawson - 5/14/2019 9:57:48 AM

We are still looking into this. The HBV VOR is still listed in the AIP under Approach and Departure Procedures, apparently, so we are checking whether it has been miscategorised or should have been removed from the AIP.

We are still looking into this. The HBV VOR is still listed in the AIP under Approach and Departure Procedures, apparently, so we are checking whether it has been miscategorised or should have been removed from the AIP.

SL, you will find out during your flying career that is is quite common for a VOR to be unavailable, be it by NOTAM for maintenance or you are in an area where radial x to y is unreliably received or it is just plain broken. A pilot unfamiliar with an area will never rely on a sole VOR, so no surprise or harm. Even if a VOR is decommissioned, it may be temporary, you can't really tell for sure and many of them are also stored in serviceable condition for emergencies with a few hours recovery for the unlikely event of GPS outage. the next solar storm will come and they usually keep the reliable stuff handy for backup. He who navigates on VOR is typically also able to do the dead reckoning as backup ;-).

Even if VORs are decommissioned they, or better their positions, are still used in the definition of Viktor ways and as waypoints on GPS overlays. Only very few are renamed from VOR to WPT, afaik to not confuse older documents. Even though GPS finally came to our cockpits rather late and is now quite popular, that doesn't mean aviation became less traditional.

Short, it is common to see decommissioned VOR on aviation charts.