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Old 24th Feb 2006, 07:24
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boomerangben:
Probably nitpicking but my point was that what many people think of as cloudbreak procedures are actually aerodrome approaches, i.e. conventional IAPs except that they are not aligned with the runway. There are a few of those around - Sumburgh, Islay for example as well as Stornoway. The point I was making is that I don't believe even that's possible at Oban because unless you put the NDB somewhere off-aerodrome to the south, the hill north of the airfield would make the MSA 1200 or 1300 feet which is pretty useless.

The sort of cloudbreak procedure I was thinking of was something along these lines:

http://www.slv.dk/Dokumenter/dscgi/d...KVG_NDB_MY.pdf

Not sure if the Danes have approved any commercial operators to use that procedure but I have a suspicion that the CAA here would have kittens at the prospect of a Jetstream hunting around in the murk at 1000ft or less with the Capt and FO debating which headland is the right one to fly round to reach the airfield.
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