Originally Posted by
Gentle Climb
I'm not sure that there is any great need to do it. The Rnav approach is normally good enough, the Loc/Dme is available. Many aircraft have integrated approach navigation that turns these in to virtual ILS anyhow. The minima is higher than a cat 1 ILS but when the visibility is bad enough for it to be an issue then a switch to RW15 with a small tailwind is considered. I have done that a few times.
How many aircraft have failed to get in to BHX since the G/P became u/s? I don't know but I cant think it is that many.
That sounds very reasonable, after all when vis. is low, then the wind is generally light and switching to RW15 should be no great issue. One wonders therefore why BHX doesn't put the RW33 ILS on Ebay, and just retain the facility on '15'? Being a bit facetious there perhaps!