Beagle
Stirring again I see. Yes you had to pay £17000 for 4 light aircraft. Can you imagine what the tax payer would have said to multiplying that by 200 or what ever the figure is now.
As to no PAR as the way ahead. What about some of the small pointy aircraft that either have never been fitted with or wouldn't have the room or weight alowance to have ILS systems fitted. Then add the extra cost of having ILS installed at all of our airfields compared to one PAR which can be turned for the runway in use. What then about deployed ops? Think of the cost and time involved in fitting and calibrating a full ILS system to places like Kabul and Basra after we have just destroyed the one that was fitted there. Much easier to deploy a mobile PAR system. Therefore we have to train and operate with it in peacetime as in war.