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Old 11th Oct 2003, 21:24
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George Tower
 
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National Airlines Flights From Cape Town

I hope I'm not going to embarrass myself by asking what my be a silly question but I'm interested to know how NAC fly to Springbok from Cape Town.

The reason I ask is that I know that FASB is an unmanned airfield with out an NDB or VOR (as well as DME or ILS). Just taking GPS and the fact that Sprigbok has on average 300 days of sunshine a year out of the equation how would they be expected to conduct a commercial operation presumably flying IFR?

So assuming that at Springbok it was say OVC at FL100 how would they execute the approach and secondly how would they navigate to the destination under IFR?

I'm just about to study for my Radio Aids CPL exam so as you can see I don't have any experience of IFR operations but I have flown to Springbok before so it would be interesting to have my questions answered.

Many thanks

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