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Old 13th Nov 2022, 17:16
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Originally Posted by ShyTorque
I’m well aware of those, having done QGH letdowns (some quite good, some definitely not, as in “I don’t recognise this place, can you see an airfield?”), but I wouldn’t consider them Navaids in the usual, pilot interpreted sense, any more than a ground based radar is.
Nothing wrong with a decent QGH. I was brought up doing endless QGH letdowns, with simultaneous UHF and VHF. As a trainee, we got so busy my screen controller ended up doing 2/3 high-level UHF [Canberras/JPs] while I was also doing 2/3 low level VHF [Varsities]..

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