tmmorris,
Had a crack at a couple of PAR's in the military. Indeed, my first go was in a Hawk recovering to Boscombe Down.
The reality of my skills was
To be fair, they are not as hard as an ILS because there is no pilot interpretation (spelling?). Normally they operate on a dedicated frequency with just one talkdown controller and one pilot on the frequency. This means you get an almost constant stream of position and instructions. They give you the headings and tell you if you are high or low on glideslope and whether you are correcting. Compared to an ILS, you just have to fly the numbers accuartely and do as you are told.
By the way, my latter attempts were in a Grob115 and proved a little easier to keep ahead of the aircraft!
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