Originally Posted by
Forfoxake
I am not an instrument-rated pilot (I gave up in the middle of my IMC training almost 30 years ago) but I think this account tells it's own story.
As CJ1234 said, "Quite agree. the NDB (approach) should have gone the way of the dodo decades ago."
Not until something else replaced them. More than once snow banks or snow ploughs somehow dissabled the ILS at DTW. Yes, dive and drive, push the head, pull the tail got us in. But it is good that nobody has to dive and drive anymore. That was a recipe for a mishap whether you were flying an NDB, VOR or LOC only.