Two Indiana airports must redraw their flight paths after a navigation beacon shuts down

The Federal Aviation Administration is changing the flight boundaries around the Elkhart and Goshen airports in Indiana. This is happening because a key radio beacon that pilots used to navigate has been turned off.

For decades, air traffic control has relied on a network of ground-based radio beacons to guide planes. As GPS technology improves, the US is slowly decommissioning these older systems. This small change in Indiana is a tiny piece of a much larger shift in how planes will navigate the skies.