Originally Posted by
mullokintyre
At YSHT we regularly have IFR training pilots conducting NDB training who announce that they are tracking on the inbound radial, will conduct a missed approach and climb to XXX feet on the outbound radial. Makes no sense to the lowly PPL RAA guys. Does it convey much to the trainees and newbees in the circuit?? Not much.
Most PPL/RAA types don't carry plates with them, and wouldn't know how to read them anyway..
Mick
One would think the RAA instructors would have briefed their students at a very early stage of training about the area, obstacles, geo features etc.etc. AND the existence of IFR instrument approaches.
That is, provide their students with a basic overview of what the approaches are about, and in particular which direction the aircraft will appear from and head to on a missed approach etc. Those students will of course be mixing it with other aircraft including RPT at other fields in the future, including some doing instrument approaches, so the education would be worthwhile.