Just be aware (maybe you are) that a large proportion of accidents during approach involve non-precision approaches. If a "modern" FMC airplane is the case, be extra cautious. Most of our approach training in the somewhat modern 757 consisted of non-precision, because of the insidious dangers if altitude capture/hold fails during VS (vertical speed) mode, resulting in a descent during a distraction...
Non-prec approaches were not considered as hazardous using the older technology, although some of us would refuse to go to a destination airport in any airplane having only an NDB approach without adequate fuel to divert to an alternate airport with an operational VOR, LOC or ILS. You might not be in the US-we don't count on the FARs (Federal Air Regs) to keep us out of trouble: how many FAA/CAA attorneys/bureaucrats have crashed and killed other people while leaning back at their desks? They watch basketball by a glowing fireplace in their homes dotting the tree-covered Virginia countryside (or boldly fly their Microsoft Learjet computer joystick) while we fly to minimums on a nasty, windy night and pray that we never land on the wrong runway (often the first approach lights which we see, due to offset runway threshholds, are the wrong ones) by mistake.
You want to bet your career/life+passengers lives on a single, very imprecise NDB pointer? But maybe you have no choice. What a lousy approach aid in the 21st century.
[This message has been edited by Ignition Override (edited 02 May 2001).]