I wonder, just wonder, if practice ILS approaches at some training airfields might *just* be the original cause of the dreadful practice of bomber circuits?
Ghengis, I think what you might have really been getting at was extending downwind so that when turning final you may be intercepting the localiser 2 miles out, thereby getting a "free" ILS apporach for the last part of the approach?
I know it has been done before, and will continue to be dones so when airfileds charge over £10 a time for these approaches - I understand in the US they are usually free?